"And it is the consciousness of this, the knowledge that poverty in childhood blights the whole of life, which makes it the most appalling of all the phases of the poverty problem." -John Spargo, The Bitter Cry of the Children (1906) The Bitter Cry of the Children (1906) by John Spargo is a book written as a result of Spargo's investigations into the living conditions of children in poverty, particularly those who were forced into labor in New York...