vernment isn't as willing to fund Head Start nationwide is somewhat surprising. A program like Head Start is expensive, but one could respond that a B-1 bomber is even more expensive. National defense is a matter of choices; while the government in the past few decades has been focusing on the external threats, the internal threats to the security of the United States have all but been ignored. Consequently, the war with the Soviet Union was essentially won in 1989, while the war on poverty and the war on drugs were lost because the government was unwilling (or unable) to commit the needed resources for change and education.
The cycle of apathy and lack in the impoverished areas remained unbroken. Additionally, malnutrition took its toll as children without adequate diets were rendered permanently unable to achieve their actual potential because their brains were not allowed to develop as they were meant to be. That the majority of prison inmates are functionally or actually illiterate says much about where a malnourished child may end up. The
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