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Here is the Heritage Foundation's thinking on the family origins of poverty, via the Communitarianoids at Smartmarriages.
"Understanding
> > Differences in Black and White Child Poverty Rates," is available online
> > at http://www.heritage.org/library/cda/cda01-04.html .
> >
> > CHILD POVERTY RATES REFLECT FAMILY STRUCTURE, NOT RACE, ANALYSIS SHOWS
> >
> > Black children are more than twice as likely to live in poverty than are
> > white children-but not because they are "born black in America,"
according
> > to a new study from The Heritage Foundation's Center for Data Analysis
> > (CDA).