TruthTruth:

   The The rate of poverty amongst Black kids IS greater than amongst White kids. 

High rates of child poverty in the United States are a continuing concern. The fact that poverty is considerably more common among Black children than it is among White children has intensified this concern. In 1999, according to the U.S. Bureau of the Census, 33.1 percent of Black children lived in poverty compared with 13.5 percent of White children.

Based on information provided by the US Department Of Labor, the following was revealed:

• The major underlying factors producing child poverty in the United States are welfare dependence and single parenthood.
  
  

•  Ethnicity per se is not a factor in producing child poverty; ethnicity alone doesn’t directly increase or decrease the probability that a child will be poor.
  
  

• Black American children are more likely to live in poverty than are White children, primarily because Black children are far more likely to live in single-parent families and to be on welfare.
  
  

•  When a Black child is compared with a White child raised in identical circumstances, both children will have the same probability of living in poverty.
  
  

• Similarly, when Caucasians with high levels of single parenthood and welfare dependence (matching those typical in portions of the African American community) are compared to African Americans, the poverty rates for both groups are nearly identical.

African Americans and Caucasian Americans differ dramatically in marriage patterns and welfare dependence. In 1999, 68.8 percent of African American children were born out of wedlock. By contrast, the out-of-wedlock birth rate for Caucasian Americans was 26.7 percent. Similarly, African American children were five times more likely to be dependent on welfare from the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program than Caucasian children. Since single parenthood and welfare dependence are the primary factors producing child poverty in the United States , any meaningful strategy to reduce the disparities in Black and White child poverty must focus on increasing marriage and reducing welfare dependence among financially poor African Americans.

Reference links:

Center for Data Analysis Report #01-04 - http://www.heritage.org/Research/Welfare/CDA01-04.cfm

 
                       This Myth has been CONFIRMED!