Poverty and School Funding

  The topic that I want to write about is poverty and school funding.  It’s not a secret that poverty is a major problem in the United States. The middle class seems to be disappearing and the gap is widening between the upper class and the lower class sectors of society.  The socioeconomic status of children and their families has a profound effect on the children’s education, even in a country that prides itself on equal opportunity and fair treatment of all. A higher level of education is needed for high-paying jobs that can support a family but in recent years  school funding is diminishing and removing one more source of hope for ending the cycle which results in creating a huge college completion gap between high and low-income students.