Given the “long-term negative impacts associated with child poverty” (McCarty 1), which often persists not only in a person’s lifetime, but possibly in the lifetime of that person’s children, how should American society respond and why?

“long-term negative impacts associated with child poverty” (McCarty 1), which often persists not only in a person’s lifetime, but possibly in the lifetime of that person’s children, how should American society respond and why?

In your essay, we recommend that you do the following:
• Use ideas from the reading set to analyze the situation of Kisha Dawkins’ family, past and present.

• Incorporate ideas that support your position (and why they are convincing) as well as ideas that disagree with your position (and why they are not convincing).

• Define and employ key terms that seem to be central to the arguments of your sources and, therefore, to your argument as well. Primary among these key terms is poverty. You may choose your own key terms from the reading set, or select some from this list: social mobility; income inequality; socioeconomic context; social determinant; causal relation; material and social resources; toxic stress; ecologies; and psychologically nourishing.