Transitory vs. Persistent Poverty

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This paper looks at how transitory and persistent poverty cause different experiences in the lives of children in a number of ways. It examines these two types of poverty and focuses on proposed reasons why these differences occur. These include dissimilarities in economic resources, non-economic resources, environment, and age. It also attempts to explain how experiences differ regarding the type of poverty, while using findings from previous research in the family studies field and others.

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"In the case of economic resources, children who are raised in poor families are statistically more likely to be poor when they reach early adulthood. Poor black children were 35 to 60 percent more likely to be poor, whereas white children were two times more likely to be poor later in life than children of their same race who were not raised in a poor family. The same black child would be 2.5 times more likely to be persistently poor and the white child, 3-8 times more likely. Also, all children had very low income to needs ratios and were more likely to be poor by age 20 to 30 if raised in a poor family compared to those children raised in a moderate income home."

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