Question

read paragraph 8 from the passage. what is the authors main idea in this excerpt?
food insecurity occurs when a household cannot afford enough food for family members to lead active, healthy lives.
poverty is a cause of lower educational outcomes because it causes children to be absent from or drop out of school.
being sick more often is one unfortunate cause and effect of child poverty.
family - related issues are some of the most difficult problems to solve regarding poverty.
reading passage
the link between education and poverty

1. imagine a classroom of 20 children, ready for learning. in this class, 12 of them - over half - are considered low - income or poor. of the 72 million children in the united states, more than 45 million of them are growing up in low - income or poor families. that is 64 percent of children in the richest country in the world living just above or under the poverty line (jiang 1). there are many causes to poverty, but none as inextricably linked as education. in fact, children whose parents have less than a high school degree have a significantly increased chance of growing up in poverty (jiang 2). poverty and lack of education are connected in a continuing, ever - worsening cycle. in fact, poverty is both a cause and an effect of lack of education.
2. one of the ways poverty negatively impacts educational outcomes is that poorer neighborhoods are not able to fund their schools adequately. public schools are funded with property taxes from the surrounding areas, meaning that poorer neighborhoods bring in less tax revenue, resulting in less funding for their schools. sean slade, senior director of global outreach at the association for supervision and curriculum development believes that how we fund our school systems is fundamentally flawed. he writes, \we have established systems that perpetuate

Explanation:

The paragraph discusses how poverty impacts educational outcomes. It mentions that poverty is a cause of lower educational outcomes (as parents with less than a high - school degree have a significantly increased chance of their children being in poverty, which affects education). It also talks about how poverty leads to food insecurity (when a household cannot afford enough food) and how being sick more often (due to poverty - related factors like poor living conditions and lack of proper nutrition from food insecurity) is a cause and effect of poverty. Family - related issues (like parents' education levels) are part of the poverty - education cycle. However, "to solve regarding poverty" is more of a general statement about solutions rather than a main idea related to the cause - effect relationship between poverty and its impacts (education, food insecurity, health) that the paragraph focuses on.

Answer:

To solve regarding poverty.