David Frum posted a blog entry about an Urban Institute report that said that...
American children experience poverty than we might suppose – and... their odds of escape over time are much lower than we might hope.
- More than 1 out of 3 American children will be poor at some point in their childhood.
- You might imagine this experience as a brief or temporary one: the child on food stamps as his mother seeks work after a divorce for example. In fact, even children who experience poverty only temporarily tend to experience it recurringly: they cycle in and out of poverty, bad years following good.
- Children born into poverty are much more likely to remain poor in adulthood than children who are not born into poverty.
- Race predicts poverty: black children are 2.5x more likely to experience poverty than white, 7x more likely to be persistently poor.
Such sad statements about a nation as wealthy as ours...
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