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Minority Children Start Poor, Stay Poor
Children of color are four times more likely than their white peers to be born into a poor family and suffer a lifetime of consequences, ranging from diminished academic standing to increased financial insecurity, a report released Thursday found.
Beyond financial comfort, even practical dreams of education and savings remain an elusive idea for many nonwhite Americans. The nation's racial wealth disparity is more pronounced in the lives of children, the study, prepared by the California-based Insight Center for Community Economic Development, revealed.
"You could say that, 'oh these poor children of color, they are doing so badly. We should help them out of...generosity,'" said Trina Shanks, associate professor at the University of Michigan School of Social Work, who authored the report. "But this is a different conversation. What we are saying here is look at the numbers. Children of color will represent the majority of children in the United States in 2024, 2024. Right now, so many of these children are living and learning in conditions that diminish their potential as early as two years old. If we...help families build just the most basic of assets, it can benefit the country over a longer period of time."
In about 13 years, the population of black, Latino, Asian, Native American and Pacific Islander youths is expected to collectively outpace the number of white children living in the United States.
Right now, Latino, black and Native American children under the age of five are three times as likely as their white and certain Asian counterparts to live in households with very little income and sometimes, zero assets, the study found. And even when children of color come from homes that do hold wealth-building assets, the value of what their families own is generally worth less than that of white children, according to the report.
That is why some white Americans who don't earn high incomes or build their own assets can still turn to their parents or other relatives for financial help when it is time, for instance, to move to a better school district. But many families of color don't have relatives with deeper pockets, Shanks said.
"There will be people who look at this study and say, you know, I can provide a little help to my family if the time comes," said Shanks. "...But what you are essentially saying is, you don't mind people who have historically had more continuing to have more. You are almost guaranteeing that inequities are going to continue over time."
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By: SAY WHAT! on 4/08/2011 9:47AM
How does that saying go...?
God helps those that help themselves.
Unfortunately and as always most things good or bad can be traced back to originations of family.
When you have no family, parents lacking, etc, you reap what you sow.
Give a person a fish and the'll eat for a day
Teach a person to fish and they'll feed themselves.
Not enough fishing going on as most poor kids learn little more than how to sit on their butts all day watching keeping up with the kardashians while waiting on government checks.
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By: linda on 4/08/2011 10:14AM
@SAY WHAT! This article is the most racist topic this staement is a OPINION NOT THE FACTS!Because most of the SUCESSFUL minority people come from a poor family that they seen thier mother raising them on welfare by NOT having a father at home or.Both parents lack of education so they cant get a good job.But these children who comes from a poor family don't want to be poor when they grow up.So they wont have to strugle as an Adult like they did as a child.Doing with out things and having the finer things in LIFE because thier parents or mother could't give them what they wanted as a child.So when these poor children turn in to Adults they work hard to be some body so they can have a better life for them self than what they had as a child.People do change just because they may have been poor as a child that dose not mean they have to be poor as an Adult iam going to PRAY for who ever came up with this TOPIC!
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By: Sky on 4/08/2011 10:23AM
There are many people in the U.S. depending on government checks.
You could possibly be one of those people yourself or many members of your family.
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By: linda on 4/11/2011 7:41PM
This article is so WRONG minority children do NOT stay poor because they may have came from a poor family.This artcile is a LIE shame the DEVIL who ever wote it because IAM a prime excample.Of a child who came and raised from a single poor miority mother.On welfar assisetits becauce my father die when i was 2 years old.My mom had 5 children to raise by her self iam the youngest.I lived in the GHETO as a child we where poor but that made me work harder.I went to school and was laughet at because i had holes in my shoes and was not wearing the clothes every body else was wearing.Because my mom coild not buy me the clothes that was in style.I had to wear handy me down from my mom friends gave her that thier children grow out of.Or i had to wear clothes my mom bought fro us from good well.My mother is Korean my father was black.I prayed to GOD to help my mother and for me not to grow up like that but GOD blessed me to be better than my mom as an Adult that is why iam living a better LIFE now.Than how i was as a child.Thats why GOD bless me to be successful as a Adult and i can have all the things that i did when i grow up poor.Now iam a successful RN registerd Nurse i live in a two story house have two cars ALL bought and paid for and my children .Don't have to want for any thing because they have it ALL.NO and i never been on welfarjust because i grow up on it and grow up poor did NOT mean that i was going to be that way.I could not have all that i have with out GOD.
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By: pimpinperry2 on 4/08/2011 4:17PM
@ Linda.....It seems like you can't comprehend what you read. The article is not racist. In fact the study is not surprising. If a child is born into a poor family the article states that the child is 4 times as likely to remain poor. That doesn't man all children born into poverty will stay that way.
If story is true then congrualtions to you for overcoming the odds. However I question your education level. Your spelling and wording leaves suggests that you dropped out of school early.
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By: linda on 4/08/2011 10:58AM
THIS TOPIC IS SO NOT RIGHT!Iam a prime exsample of a minority Adult.That grow up poor and on welfar my mother was a single parent with 5 children and had to do what ever she could do to supports us.When our father died i was only 2 years old i was the baby out of 4 other siblings.And ALL of us are successful and yes we are miorites mother Korean father black.We seen our mother stuggling as we where growing up from a poor family on welfar living in the ghetto.We had to do with out a lot of things as a poor child we had to go to school and be made fun of because we had to wear shoes with hole in them are clothes that was not matching or was not in style.Because or mother could not affored to buy us the nice clothes or name brand clothes or shoes.But she did what she could working 2 jobs and yes getting help from the government.But she was doing the best she could with what she had to work with.Specialy not having a education she only finished the 7th grade in Korea.But all of us word hard not to be like her as we turn in to Adults.We did not want to be poor any more so we went to school graduated went to collage.To have a better life than we had as a child my sister is a collage instructor my older brother is a CEO for is own bissness my other two brothers.Or successful managers iam a RN [registerd Nurse. and now all of us.Is living the good LIFE just because we came from a poor family did not mean we had to live like that as an Adult GOD blessed us.
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By: Tiffany on 4/08/2011 11:20AM
I don't believe your story Linda.......college graduate and you cannot spell.
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By: girlking on 4/08/2011 5:53PM
Typos do not equate to lack of education. So just stop it with the insults. You know what she means.
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By: sgtm7 on 4/11/2011 7:40PM
@girlking
If it was just typos I would agree with you. To put it nicely, her grammar and sentence structure leave much to be desired.
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