I chose to review Children 's Defense Fund, which is a non-profit group that works to leave 'no child left behind” at the federal, state, and community levels. The Children 's Defense Fund, was actually started through the early civil rights movements by the efforts of Marian Wright. The primary focus of the Children 's Defense Fund is child poverty. I did not realize, in a country as prosperous as ours, that the United States has the second highest child poverty rate out of 36 “industrialized” countries. Child poverty is costly to our economy. Poverty hurts in so many ways . For children, it hurts their health and well-being, their ability to learn, thus effecting their future, which in turn effects our country 's future, according to