Childhood poverty statistically cascades into lifelong institutional and health harms.

Evidence

Such crushing poverty dashes the dreams of millions of children daily. But not only that: it almost ensures that they will lead less healthy lives as they grow up; that they will more than likely drop out of high school; that they will experience some form of violence in their lifetime; that they will likely find themselves caught up in the criminal justice system; and that they will end up raising their children in the same horrifying conditions they grew up in. In short, the terrible effects of the Great Black Depression guarantee, unless we fully understand the urgency of now, that even darker days are ahead. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 52

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the book’s working term ‘the Great Black Depression’ as shorthand for post-2008 black economic collapse.
• XREF: connects to: Poverty forces families to mask contaminated water rather than avoid it — , Harr Jonathan - A Civil Action , 104; Poverty imposes costs on children’s neuroendocrine function, early brain development, and cognitive ability. — Poverty, Stress, and Brain Development: New Directions for …; Childhood abuse raises lifetime healthcare costs independently of later psychiatric conditions — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 10794 (+7 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Poverty forces families to mask contaminated water rather than avoid it — , Harr Jonathan - A Civil Action , 104; Poverty imposes costs on children’s neuroendocrine function, early brain development, and cognitive ability. — Poverty, Stress, and Brain Development: New Directions for …; Childhood abuse raises lifetime healthcare costs independently of later psychiatric conditions — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 10794 (+7 more)