The Washington Post published a story last week:
"Hispanics now make up the largest group of children living in poverty, the first time in U.S. history that poor white kids have been outnumbered by poor children of another race or ethnicity, according to a new study.
In a report released Wednesday, the Pew Hispanic Center said that 6.1 million Hispanic children are poor, compared with 5 million non-Hispanic white children and 4.4 million black children. Pew said Hispanic poverty numbers have soared because of the impact of the recession on the growing number of Latinos."
Yes, the economy is a factor. However, the economy has nothing to do with 16-year old girls having babies or 17-year old boys dropping out of high school. They were doing it before the recession!
We have a community in trouble and we are not hearing anything about it.
What should we do?
Let's start by telling young people that they shouldn't have babies before marriage. It is a recipe for disaster and dependency on government programs.
Let's tell young men that a high school degree is a necessity for today's global economy.
We are creating an "underclass" or people that will be poor for generations.
We spoke about this with Israel Ortega and George Rodriguez about this topic on Wednesday's show:
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