The effects of poverty on children are wide-reaching and can lead to lifelong struggles, especially when young people don’t receive full educations.

Poverty and education are inextricably linked, because people living in poverty may stop going to school so they can work, which leaves them without literacy and numeracy skills they need to further their careers. Their children, in turn, are in a similar situation years later, with little income and few options but to leave school and work.