[Vision2020] changes

[Bill London]

Our country is changing quickly.  Here in the small world of the Palouse, we might not notice what is happening
elsewhere in the US--for example, the massive increase in black poverty in our affluent country.  Below is a
summary and weblink to a NY Times article on the subject.
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> >NUMBER OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN CHILDREN IN POVERTY RISING
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> >The number of African-Americans under 18 years old who live in extreme
> >poverty has risen sharply since 2000 and is now at its highest level since
> >the government began collecting such figures in 1980, according to a study
> >by the Children s Defense Fund, a child welfare advocacy group. In 2001,
> >the last year for which government figures are available, nearly one
> >million African-American children were living in families with after-tax
> >incomes that were less than half the amount used to define poverty, said
> >the new study, which was based on Census Bureau statistics. The poverty
> >line for a family of three was about $14,100, the study said, so a family
> >of three living in extreme poverty had a disposable income of about
> >$7,060, the study said. In early 2000, only 686,000 African-American
> >children were that poor, the study said, indicating that the economic
> >circumstances of the United States poorest African-American families
> >deteriorated sharply from 2000 to 2001.
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> >Sam Dillon
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> >Report Finds Number of Black Children in Deep Poverty Rising
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> >New York Times, April 30, 2003
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> ><http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/30/national/30POOR.html>http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/30/national/30POOR.html
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