Read More... Bill Clinton addresses the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, July 26, 2016. (Credit: Reuters/Lucy Nicholson) This article was originally published on The Conversation. A recent UNICEF report found that the United States ranked 34th on the list of 35 developed countries surveyed on the well-being of children. According to the Pew Institute, children under the age of 18 are the most impoverished age population of Americans, and African-American children are almost four times as likely as white children to be in poverty. These findings are alarming, not least because they come on the 20th anniversary of President Clinton’s promise to “end welfare as we know it” with his signing into law, on Aug.