Race, Education, and Hunger

A study conducted at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis finds that 49 percent of all American children will at some time in their childhood be in a family that qualifies for food stamps. The study, published in Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, also found a huge racial disparity. According to the data, 90 percent of African-American children will at some time in their childhood be in a family that qualifies for food stamps. For whites, the figure is 37 percent.

The study found that black children in a single-parent family, whose head has less than a high school education, have a 97 percent chance of being in a food stamp family by age 10.

Interesting enough, growing up as a kid I was embarrassed a few times when my mom sent me to the store with the paper food stamps although I never admitted it to her until yesterday.  She wasn't upset at all but she quickly pointed out that "not one of my kids ever went hungry."  The older my siblings and I get, the more she share some of her old school tactics from back in the day when she use to sell some of them stamps in order pay the light bill.  And that is Life...!  It has nothing to do with race or education.  It has everything to do with the quality of life!

Those numbers are scary because I can't imagine them decreasing in the current economy we live in.