>> > Yet when black children and white children are grouped by levels of
single
>> > parenthood and welfare dependence the poverty rates for both groups are
>> > nearly identical, Rector found.
>> >
>> > "Any meaningful strategy to reduce the disparities between black and
white
>> > child poverty must focus on increasing marriage and reducing welfare
>> > dependence among blacks," he says.
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Popular myth has it that old people are more likely to die than young people, but when old and young people are grouped together by whether they were hospitalized before their death, the death rates for young and old are nearly identical. "Any meaningful strategy to reduce the disparity in mortality rates between young and old must focus on reducing hospitalization and health care dependence among the elderly," our researchers say.
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