Schools in the US serve nearly 12 million free breakfasts and over 20 million free lunches to children every day: https://schoolnutrition.org/AboutSchoolMeals/SchoolMealTrend...
Unfortunately the infrastructure of school meals in the US is, like so much else, political. A sensible approach would be free (both removing the complex billing infrastructure and removing stigma of "free" vs "paying") nutritious meals for all students.
Incredibly, both "free" and "nutritious" are contentious.
The black panthers used to serve free breakfast to schoolkids for a reason.
What... does that mean?
I see how someone who cannot (legally) work yet can be poorer than other age groups, but I am sure that’s not what is meant. But is a child somehow deemed poorer than its caregivers? Or perhaps is the child as poor as its poorest caregiver? Or how does that fact appear?
/shrug
The answer is that in child poverty research, a child is considered to live in poverty if that child lives in a household with an income below the statistical low income cutoff.
I don’t think people have difficulty with the concept of child poverty, but your original assertion sounds super weird (and yet it sounds official, not a personal opinion, so a paper detailing that would be a better answer).
I agree it's very confusing.
> there are a lot of kids with low household income
I think maybe you meant to reply to someone else.
Using that measure, in the United States 1/6 children live in poverty. Half of those live in statistically defined ‘extreme poverty’. That 1/6 has some interesting geographical and race based components that worth a read. There is a metric shit tonne of research on this and if you’re interested in a reading list, my email is in my profile! :)
I really don't expect my kids to have more disposable income than I do.
Finally, we are talking about child poverty - a little bit of respect and perhaps some research would be a far better complement than lowbrow snark.
How would we make children not the poorest age group? First poor families are more likely to have more kids than well to do ones, and kids raise the income you need to be above the poverty line.
Better statistics revolve around specific needs that children have and what percentage of those are satisfied.
Consequently, we’re stuck with statistical measures based on deviations from income and cost of living.