ESSAY: We can do more about child poverty in Acadiana

ESSAY: We can do more about child poverty in Acadiana

This essay won second place in Ascension Episcopal School’s Blueprint Civic Writing Contest in which students wrote about one social, political or economic issue that matters to them. Columbia University’s National Center for Children in Poverty has recently made claims that the largest threat to children’s well being is economic instability. Impoverished children are in a constant cycle of not having access to necessary nutrition, of being sign…