[Fwd: CHILD POVERTY RATES REFLECT FAMILY STRUCTURE, NOT RACE, ANALYSISSHOWS -5/01]

[Michael McIntyre]

Using the term loosely!  Look at the link and you find that the variable that outweighs all others in "producing child poverty" is "amount of time spent on welfare."  And you thought all this time that people went on welfare because they were poor!  Au contraire, mes amis!  Welfare causes poverty!  The data prove it!  Heritage dixit.

Michael McIntyre


>>> sawicky at bellatlantic.net 05/30/01 05:29AM >>>
Actually the big news here is that Heritage
has a Center for Data Analysis.

mbs

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).