I dare you to read this report and not cry. As you read it, realize that 2009 will likely be worse.
Michigan Kids Count Data Book 2008
From the Executive Summary:
"Poverty afflicts one of every four young children ages
0–4. Minority children have much higher rates—44
percent for African Americans and 29 percent for
Hispanics compared with 15 percent for whites."
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
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That is heartbreaking. The saddest thing to me is cyclical poverty. What I see in my district is young unwed mother --> kids --> problems in the home --> schooling goes bad (no funding, bad teachers, no support at home or a combination thereof) --> new generation of unwed parents with no skills.
People tend to get very passionate about the having kids issue, and I sincerely don't mean to inflame anything like that (I am childless by choice, never wanted to or planned to have kids, so I guess it's easy for me to say). But, I will say that while having kids at a young age does not doom you for life, it does make things more difficult unless you have a great support system and/or a fair sum of money at your disposal.
I don't have any suggestions, other than education, which as you know is woefully underfunded (and will get worse thanks to lax "homeschooling" laws and charter schools).
In the absence of well-paying low-skill jobs, education is essential to breaking the cycle of poverty. These are the workers who can't compete with the poorest abroad for outsourced jobs that long ago left our soil.
We would have to exhibit political will to lift our fellow citizens out of undereducated poverty. We would have to consider them fellow citizens and decide to expend resources fairly.
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