"U.S. millennials post ‘abysmal’ scores in tech skills test, lag behind foreign peers

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. Do you know what many of them don't have? A high child poverty rate.

You left several variables out of your equation but, I'll just stick with two to keep things simple; and the post short.
4. Germany - Birth dearth: 20 countries with lowest birth rates - Pictures - CBS News
Socialists like to raise taxes to control people and population. When taxes are raised people have less money to spend so, less children are born because raising children in a high tax economy is expensive; even CNN agrees! Average cost of raising a child hits $245,000 - Aug. 18, 2014 Look at Japan, #2 on the birth rate list. It has a death rate higher than the birth rate. In around 100 years the population of Japan will be cut close to half of what it is today, around 122 million.

You all so left out how each country labels poverty. The US labels someone that makes $20,000 or less, living in poverty. Beside, no child is poor, it's the parent/s or guardian. No child is born with a job. If it was, child labor laws prevent it from working. Age of majority laws prevent a child from filing out papers to apply for welfare programs, the parent/guardian has to do that or enrolled by default when parent/guardian dies. If living conditions are terrible then the child can be put in an orphanage by court order. Oh wait, I know, lets use the legal age of child, which is 18! Yes! Now we can say that there is a child poverty rate because high school graduates have no skills at anything when they graduate and thus, have to get a job bagging groceries over the summer to pay for college while making less than $20,000. Even better, we can push to have the legal age of majority to twenty six so these, so called children, can stay on their parent's health insurance policy. Your childhood poverty level includes those that are 0 - 18 years of age and possibly, if politics keep going the way they are, include those up to 26 years of age.

The US is a socialist lite country so far. Keynesian economist like to use the term mixed economy because socialist have mastered the art of marketing. But the recent FCC take over of the internet (Roosevelt and Nixon would be very proud) shows a full socialist economy is not far down the road.