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(10pp) Supposedly during the Regan years, a story
circulated that Regan told on himself. "We
declared war on poverty", the President said. "And
poverty won!" A funny story perhaps, if it wasn't
so true. Politicians will tell us that due to a
strong economy, we are doing just fine. The
statistics label that "wishful thinking," as we
recognize that child poverty is at a thirty year
high. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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"wishful thinking," as we recognize that child poverty is at a thirty year high. Bibliography lists 7 sources. BBchdpov.doc CHILDREN IN POVERTY
Written by B. Bryan Babcock for the Paperstore, Inc., January 2001 Introduction Supposedly during the Regan years, a story circulated that Regan
told on himself. "We declared war on poverty", the President said. "And poverty won!" A funny story perhaps, if it wasnt so true. Politicians will tell us
that due to a strong economy, we are doing just fine. The statistics label that "wishful thinking," as we recognize that child poverty, according to Lichter (1997) is at
a thirty year high. We may shake our heads, and look at the numbers, wondering how that can be, yet the gap between rich children and poor children is widening
rather than decreasing. It might be easy to say that the initial research was not done correctly, or the changing nature of poverty distorts the true figures, but as
some point that is the "wordiness" of the issue. The reality is that we are not doing well by a great portion of our children. Concentrated poverty According to
the Institute on Race and Poverty (2000), an area of "concentrated poverty" occurs when forty percent or more of the population of a given area, live at, or below, the
government determined poverty line. This is generally happening in the residential sections of what is labeled the" core of the city," or those older suburban neighborhoods that may
ring the city core, and disproportionately houses minorities. While concentrated poverty is prevalent in five percent of metropolitan areas, over a quarter of those living, and raising their
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