The article “Our Tired, Our Poor, Our Kids” by Anna Quindlen offers an insight to not only poverty in the United States, but poverty in the United States amongst kids as well. The way Quindlen wrote this article she very much has a compassionate tone to her, almost like a commercial to sponsor a child in some third world country. I definitely agree with what she is arguing for and think that she did a good job at it. She really plays at people’s emotions and tugs at their heartstrings when she brings up all the stories about the homeless families living in shelters and fitting six people in a master bedroom sized room.
Quidelin starts strong and goes straight into her stories about homeless mothers with children ranging from teens to toddlers, and their struggle to have a roof over their head every night. Most, not cold blooded, people tend to have a soft spot for the impoverished even if they do not always give to them when they are on the streets begging for money or food, but the soft spot is there nonetheless. The children are our future, a statement that has been said for generations and it never ceases to be true. That statement combined with all the little facts she provided, and organizations she talks about really form a great argument against childhood poverty. The final nail in the coffin of her argument comes when she mentions the quote that is at the base of the Statue of Liberty, “Give me your tired, your poor,” and relates that to the “small refugees” whose chances at the American dream have essentially been ruined.
Overall, I feel that Anna Quidlen made a great argument against childhood poverty and I completely agree with what she stated.
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