1. What factors can lead to poverty?
- born into it
- bad education
- bad job
- evicted
- medical bills
- living in a bad area
- family issues
- geographic location
2. Which members of our society suffer most?
- In the United States, 39 percent of African-American children and adolescents and 33 percent of Latino children and adolescents are living in poverty, which is more than double the 14 percent poverty rate for non-Latino, White, and Asian children and adolescents (Kids Count Data Center, Children in Poverty 2014)
- African American unemployment rates are typically double that of Caucasian Americans. African-American men working full-time earn only 72 percent of the average earnings of comparable Caucasian men and 85 percent of the earnings of Caucasian women (Rodgers, 2008).
- African-Americans and Latinos are more likely to attend high-poverty schools than Asian-Americans and Caucasians (National Center for Education Statistics, 2007).
- From 2000 to 2013 the dropout rate between racial groups narrowed significantly. However, high school dropout rates among Latinos remain the highest, followed by African-Americans and then Whites (National Center for Education Statistics, 2015).
Thank you for citing your sources.
That being said, why do you think those statistics are so powerful? What is causing poverty within those populations?
This is really interesting! Any ideas what we can do to address some of the factors that lead to poverty?
We could show these stats to people in our area and maybe they could see how powerful they are.
Were you aware of these realities prior to Adon Kaufman’s class? How might you create awareness about these inequities with our school, families and larger community (moving from me to we)?
I was aware of this prior. I could help give food or time or money to people in need.