Poverty and Race in America

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This paper discusses a study done by the University of Cincinnati eight years ago, in which researchers found strong links between poverty, race, and illiteracy. The paper presents the unsettling statistics learned from this research study. The link between the level of education and poverty is identified in the paper, and educational programs are suggested as a step towards the solution of the problem.

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"Not surprisingly, the residents of these neighborhoods were black, poor, and under-educated. The average adult in these communities had not completed ninth grade. In most of these neighborhoods, the mothers received Medicaid but the neighborhoods were without convenient medical care. As a result, for the entire county 10% of pregnant women either received no prenatal care or received significantly less than needed, seeing a doctor less than 50% of the number of visits recommended for good maternal care. Not surprisingly, Cincinnati also has an alarmingly high rate of underweight babies, a factor strongly correlated with developmental problems, birth defects and infant mortality (Petrie, 1997)."

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