The Poverty-stricken Youth of America

America has been described as a melting pot a land full of diversity. With that diversity comes a full range of income levels and statuses of its inhabitants, from the real, truly rich to the destitute. Ronald Taylors clause entitled black Youth Their sociable and Economic Status in the United States straines on the issue of polarization. polarisation occurs when an increase of the portion of people in exiguity coincides with an increase of the percentage of people with nobleer incomes. Fewer people are considered middle carve up, but are either rich or short(p).This paper allow focus on the poverty-stricken young of America. How are right aways poor tweed and poor non-white youth alike? How do they differ? Sociologists and researchers have found evidence to justify both, and I hope to focus on major points for both issues.Whether youre white, African-American, or Hispanic, poverty for todays youth has many recurring themes. A recent article by Duncan and Brooks for The E ducation Digest points out some very discerning facts that face todays poor youth. Low Income is link with a variety of poor outcomes for tykeren, from low birth weight and poor nutrition in infancy to increased chances of academic failure, emotional distress, and unwed childbirth in adolescence. (Duncan& Brooks, pg. 1). They also claim that low-income preschoolers show poorer cognitive and verbal skills because they are exposed to fewer toys, books, and other brain-stimulating items at home than their higher-income classmates.Low-income adolescents, in later years, will experience conflict in the midst of their economically hard put parents, as well as lower self-esteem than other adolescent children.An article from the Ojibwe News, a Native American Magazine, gives a startling statistic discover by research analysts for the Minnesota Private College Research Foundation. They found that a child from a family earning $25,000 or less annually is only half as presumable to enro ll in college as a child from a family with an annual income of $50,000 or more.Both white and non-white youth in poverty experience a higher rate of teenage pregnancy, AIDS, and dispose to live in single-parent homes.There are several differences that exist between white and non-white youth that live in poverty. Recent research for low-income youth has shown that the most important factor that contributes to the gap between employment rank of nonage and white youth can be attributed to their social network. third reasons were cited in lecture as to what lead to the declination of life chances among African-American youth in poverty. They are as follows1. Affirmative Action primarily helped better-educated, especially professional workers.2. Relocation of industry to suburbs or abroad reduces dungeon wage jobs for non-college educated. Lack of network contacts, plus continuing discrimination, puts minorities last in line.3. Concentration of poverty in center cities. Higher incom e black families go to the suburbs for jobs. Therefore, loss of network contacts, community organizations, and the like.These reasons attribute to the starling fact that Black poverty rank and unemployment rates remain at approximately 3 measure the white rate. Israel and Seeborg in their article entitled The Impact of Youth Characteristics and Experiences on Transitions out of Poverty state that being black increases the probability of motion-picture show to adverse social and economic conditions (i.e. underclass environment) which, in turn, reduces the chance that refreshful generations can get out of poverty. This leads us to a nonher point-if African-Americans experience the highest rates of teenage pregnancy, which perpetuates continuing generational poverty, will there ever be a time when African-American adolescents get out of poverty?It is not only African-Americans that feel a more pronounced state of poverty. The Ojibwe News, a native American newspaper, focuses on the plights of Native American youth in Minnesota, as well as statistical evidence of other minority students. Divided We Fall The Declining Chance for College Among Minnesota Youth From Low-Income Families and Communities of Color is establish upon information from the Census Bureau, the Minnesota Department of Education and other sources, and examined high school dropout and college participation rates and how they are affected by much(prenominal) socioeconomic factors as race, family income, and parental education (Laird, pg. 2).The Ojibwe News showed a hale correlation between education and earnings. Considering that the present funding system for public schools usually provides from two to five times as much gold for wealthy school districts as for the poorest, and that whites are twice as likely to have good access to computers, it is no surprise that this correlation exists. accord to projections by the Minnesota Department of Education, 62% of all black students and 56% of all Native American students who entered public high school in the fall of 1991 will drop out by 1995. Nearly 50% of Hispanic students and 21% of Asian students were projected to drop out as well. The rate for white students? Only 16%.The article also explains how those 18 to 24 year-old dependents with at least one parent who had completed quaternion years of college were twice as likely to enroll in college than those peers who parents had no post-secondary education (Laird, pg. 1).In summary, there exist many similarities and differences between white youth and non-white youth in American cities. A recurring origin emphasized by researches and in lecture is the idea of socialization. By combine poor minority and poor white students with their wealthier peers, as done in the Gautreaux program, the continuation of poverty can be decreased.