Kids will be . . .

poor, it appears. A new study finds that quality of life for American children has fallen to 1975 levels. That translates to 21% of children living below the poverty line, over 500,000 homeless children, almost 3/4 of a million more children in food insecure households and all of the costs associated with this degradation. Kids who are grow up in stressful environments have "Higher rates of cancer, liver disease, respiratory disease and other conditions." (http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/06/08/children.wellbeing/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo). The good news is they are less likely to make it to retirement age, thus not contributing to the strain on Social Security. Of course, we can blame this on the government as well, I'm sure. If only we allowed corporations to pay people what they the market would bear, all our problems would be solved. Right?