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

[Brad DeLong]

>At 10:02 AM 5/30/01 -0400, Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema quoted:
>>Here is the Heritage Foundation's thinking on the family origins of
>poverty, via
>
>>>  > 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.
>
>
>In the next issue:
>
>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.
>
>wojtek

Nicely done... <applause>