New UNICEF report: The Children Left Behind

From UNICEF: The Children Left Behind
An overview of inequalities in child well-being for 24 of the world’s richest countries.
"...growing up in poverty incurs a substantially higher risk of lower standards of health, of reduced cognitive development, of underachievement at school, of lower skills and aspirations, and eventually of lower adult earnings, so helping to perpetuate disadvantage from one generation to the next."