The miller scholars group presentation was very interesting. There question was What factors have lead to poverty in the African American community and in what ways can those factors be modified so poverty may decrease? In their presentation they said the factors that contribute to poverty are reproduction, lack of education, unemployment, lack of pride in culture, and substance abuse.
In my opinion, reproduction, unemployment, and lack of education are the most important. This is not something that goes on in just the black community but all over. This is something that is widespread in America, but just more prominent in the black community. For reproduction, the black community has the highest rate of any other race. However, there is not much to do about the reproduction except promote safe sex which could maybe alleviate massive reproduction.
The unemployment rate is high as well all over. Because of the economy, people are being laid off from their jobs and people who were already unemployed, can’t find jobs. For people to be able to find jobs you have to directly stimulate job growth by supporting community owned businesses and putting money back into our own community.
Lack of education is a big issue in the black community as well. Blacks were being miseducated back into the reproduction. Without proper education, blacks are likely to have lesser paying jobs. With a high school diploma being very important and most teenagers dropping out of high school, this contributes to the unemployment rate as well. The numbers for average earnings for black without a high school diploma are very low.
There are about 20.7% families in poverty in the United States. Our numbers are the highest of any race. As a community, we need to stress the importance of safe sex as well as education to lower these numbers and slowly but surely address the issue of poverty.
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