Child Poverty in Albactana Falls to Lowest Level in History The National Statistics Office of Albactana has today annoucned that Albactana's child poverty rate has fallen to 26.1%, the lowest level since records began. This means that around 5.7 million of the nations 22 million people aged 14 and under live in poverty. This is a rapid decrease since the year 2000 when the number of children in poverty fell below half of the population under the age of 14 for the first time ever. However, there is still so much work that needs to be done to get rid of child poverty from Albactana. Despite the positive statistic the NSO offers us independent sources estimate that still up to 60% of children in Albactana are at a risk of poverty. Obviously the fact they are not in poverty is a good thing however we must not forget that as recently as 2014 the government changed the definition of poverty which drastically lowered the rate of poverty within Albactana. This helps no one and only makes it so that even more families who would, by first world standards, be classed as poor are not receiving the help they deserve.
The government must stop projecting an image of decreasing inequality to the world as this is far from the truth. The one thing these statistics do concede is that almost 60% of the nations rural children are living in poverty and this figure has barely budged since 2007. The government is turning its back on these children in favour of the urban poor and their children. We can not stand for this. All children deserve an equal chance and the government is denying too many children this. On average rural families have between 3 and 4 children and as the number of children that urban families have continues to fall these children will eventually be noticed when the child poverty rate begins to increase.
Albactana has a choice. We can either act now to stop poverty in rural areas and remove the risk of poverty from all children or we can ignore them and allow for a generation to grow up with resentment for the government that ignored their cries for help and left them to fend for themselves. The government knows which path it should take but it also has it's reasons to not take this path.