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04-28-2008, 08:17 AM #1
NC: Child poverty rate growing considerably
JOURNAL EDITORIAL STAFF
Published: April 28, 2008
Jesus told us that the poor will always be among us. Even so, we can try to reduce their numbers in North Carolina.
But the trend is not in that direction of late, and if the latest report from Action for Children North Carolina is any indicator of where we are headed, the number of poor here will be growing considerably.
During the latter half of the 20th century, North Carolina made great strides against poverty. As our economy modernized and diversified, as our schools improved and we educated more of our people, income levels rose. In the 1990s, the childhood poverty rate was beneath the national average.
New factors in North Carolina, however, are driving up the rate of childhood poverty. Today, an unacceptable one-fifth of our children are poor.
Advocates of a crackdown on illegal immigration are quick to point out that much of the growth in North Carolina poverty over the past 15 years has been due to poor, Hispanic families slipping into the country. There's no question about that. The overwhelming poverty of this flood of new people does corrupt our poverty statistics and any comparisons to previous years.
Until the federal government secures our national borders and enforces employment laws to end the enticement to move here, it is unlikely that the state can make a serious dent in poverty rates.
Here is the problem, however. Rather than looking backward, to the improved poverty rates we experienced a decade ago, we must be looking forward. If we do not alleviate some of the dangers that poverty poses for children, we will only watch as a huge new population of permanently poor people develops here.
Action for Children tells a discouraging story about the dangers of poverty. Children raised in poor families generally don't develop healthy minds and bodies. They suffer mental, emotional and physical problems later in life. They tend to remain poor and to raise a new generation of poor children. And, the burden on the rest of us — aside from the ethical and moral challenges of so many poor living in a rich land — is immense. We pay for more social programs and prison spaces. Our economy suffers when so many workers have limited skills.
Although it might be naive to think that we will ever eradicate poverty from this world, or even our society, we can do much in our public and private capacities to help drastically reduce the percentage of our population that is poor.
The best strategy, of course, is to invest in healthy and well-educated children. North Carolina has been doing much of this with programs such as Smart Start and More at Four. We must continue to do so and expand those efforts. The poor may always be with us, but that is no reason that we can't all try to reduce their numbers.
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04-28-2008, 10:33 AM #2Advocates of a crackdown on illegal immigration are quick to point out that much of the growth in North Carolina poverty over the past 15 years has been due to poor, Hispanic families slipping into the country. There's no question about that. The overwhelming poverty of this flood of new people does corrupt our poverty statistics and any comparisons to previous years."The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" ** Edmund Burke**
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04-28-2008, 07:40 PM #3
yes reduce child poverty due to illegal immigration in all the U.S....deport all the illegal aliens. Education initiatives need to be commenced in the sending nations to reduce poverty. It is not our nation's and our citizens duty to be the employment and welfare agency for the entire world.
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