DT> doors. One quarter of all children in the United 
 DT> States under the age of
 DT> six live in poverty and children comprise 40% of all people living in 
 DT> poverty. Bracey points out that "The United States 
 DT> has more than twice 
 DT> the proportion of children in poverty than all other industrialized 
 DT> nations. In the United States, 53 percent of black children and 42 
 DT> percent of Hispanic children are in poverty. But 
 DT> economics is a greater 
 DT> factor than ethnicity, he added. Well-off African American students 
 DT> score higher, on average, than poor Asian students, for example."
 DT> Renchler (May 93) documents the negative effects of 
 DT> poverty on learning.
 DT> "One study revealed strong links between family income levels and 
 DT> children's I.Q.s. Studying a sample of 900 children 
 DT> born with low birth 
 DT> weight, Duncan found that those who lived in 
 DT> 'persistent poverty' during 
 DT> their first five years had I.Q.s averaging 9.1 points lower than the 
 DT> I.Q.s of children in the sample whose families were not impoverished. 
 DT> Duncan concluded that "there is little doubt that child poverty is
 DT> scarring the development of our nation's children."
Who knows what so-called "conservatives" will call this post. 
When I suggested that there is a definite trend for one group of people in 
this country to hold back another group, I was labeled a "Marxist".  However, 
since I know that far from true, what the heck.
 
More than race, poverty is the ruin of many kids lives.  There is a group of 
people that don't care, but they are just selfish, not conservative. 
 
--- Maximus 2.02
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