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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by SecretMethod70
While I agree that school funding is the most important area to fight poverty, the truth remains that schooling does not exist in a vacuum. Children in poverty don't only have poor educational opportunities because of poorly funded schools, but also because of malnutrition, lack of access to pre-school programs (which is only partly addressed with the Head Start program), and poor home environments - many times caused by the stress of being one step away from living on the street.
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I'm currently working on a NPO project with Synergia to help poor students in the Philippines and yes, all those things make a difference and impact the people directly and immediately.
Education takes time, time these people may not choose but raising wages impacts immediately, but trades "free fish now" in place of "learning to fish"
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