The children of immigrants make up less than one-fourth of the nation’s youth population yet account for 30 percent of children living in poverty, a new report finds.
More than that, young black and brown Americans were worse off compared to white and Asian-American children, the Annie E. Casey Foundation said.
The foundation analyzed youth welfare along several axes, including education, health and economic indicators, to come up with an index of how well young people in various racial and ethnic groups were faring. Its findings are scheduled to be released today in a report called “Race for Results.”
[For more on this story by Bill Myers, go to http://jjie.org/2017/10/24/chi...w-casey-report-says/]
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