RALEIGH- The North Carolina Hispanic children are three times poorer than their white peers, and revealed a national survey released in late July.
2012 Kids Count Data Book of the Annie E. Casey Foundation gave national data and state by state. According to the report, 43 percent of Hispanic children are poor, the highest figure of all population groups, although closely followed by African Americans at 40%, however reveals very marked disparities if numbers compared to whites, where only 14% of children are poor.
“Latino children are the fastest-growing child population in North Carolina, and yet, new data show that are growing challenges that threaten to slow down the results of your future life,” he said to The Connection, Laila Bell, Director of Research and Statistics of the State Action for Childrens Foundation.
“In North Carolina, Latino children are three times more likely to grow up in poverty than non-Hispanic white peers. Research shows that poverty, especially when experienced in the early years, is one of the greatest threats to their healthy development;because they are more likely to experience school failure early, be in poor health and have lower income opportunities in the future. “
HEALTHIER BABIES
But not everything is bad for us, since at least the percentage of Hispanic babies born underweight, is the lowest of all groups.”One in 11 children in North Carolina (9 percent) low birth weight in Latinos, that number drops to 6.4 percent,” said Bell.
In general the report located in the North Carolina 34th, noting significant improvements in health and education, but large failures in economic and family matters.