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: POO CHILDREN nd
miliel in America are all of
. i-white, Black, bro n,
' .. ard-working, to-parent and
in le-parent families, mother
tru ling to get adequate
� hild support, fathe and
others strulgling to earn
�ecent wage as well as the
,ninority of poor who 4epend
n elfare.
.. " Not only have more
Ie •
hildren become poor, bu ocr
hildren now fall farther be w
e p erty line than they did
1 70s. By 1989, 4.9
.. ilUon American children -
. ore than two in five poor
hildren - were in f milie
flh income below haJf me
erty line (or Jess than
.$6,338 for a family of four).
(: .. Only one in 25 working-age
adult and one in SO elderly
adults uffer such extreme
. poverty.
THESTEREOTYP 0
child poverty are very
plisleading. In 1989, only one
.. in 10 poor children in Am�rfca
as a poor Black child livin
t a female-beaded family on
elfare in a central city .
. During the 1980s, roughly
f of all children who joined
ranks of tbe poor between
9 and 1989 were Latino.
And more than two in five poor
dren live in famllles where the
. present.
� Tbere are more poor
erican children living
tside central cities (6.9
illion in 1989) than in ide
m (5.7 million). The child
verty rate is higher in rural
a than in the rest of the
tion (22 percent versu 19
percent).
WHY ARE SO many
. children poor in- our wealthy
nation? One chief cause haa
. been the large decline in ..
wages.
Between 1979 and 1989, the
proportion of hourly workers
who were being paid a.e
rates too low to lift a family of
tbree out of poverty increased
by more than one-half.
Also, the minimum wa e is
worth les than 80 percent Qf
ita 'real (inflation-adjusted)
1979 val ue. As a result, the
minimum ';"age e rnings for a
full-time, year-round job
( 8,840) are well below' the
amount needed to-support a
tee-person family above the
poverty line.
· There are many other
ctor contributing to child
verty. The task ahead of us
is eliminating it - which will
not be e y. With support
from every lector, e can do
it. Other, leIS wealthy
countries have done far better
than we have. It' time for
America to catch up and
protect its children. (For a
copy of the Child Poverty in
America report, lend $4.50 to
the Children t Defenae Fund,
122 C Street NW, W hln to
D.C., 20001.) 4
D 0 Hi Part'
current membel1 tp i nine, O· eal
aiel. The organization intends to
e
nt to in,
00It'
klt·O '
bill for I t year. $300."
CDC's outdoor area f
ide for children bo on the ,
and located it , adjacent to Uber­
ty Elementary School, pro •
relaxed atmolpbere.
Indoors is a cbfld's deli t.1be.e
are 10 of toys, , P t
ever a child might need
to play "grown up " tb and t
genuine ling that •
Who too ? perbapl MaclilOft'.·
20 year associ te minister tenure at
T bernacle Mis ionary Baptist;
Church somethin to do with that
genuine feeling.
CDC's phone number is'
(313)864-7096.
ood Jazz and Good
u ic a T ff ny'
nd, ccordlng to M ison,
can be "hand poured" and when you
are through pourin ,all you have to
do I "lap your hands" and 11 i
ell: no nd or d t remains .
Another unique feature of e
ON 0 THE employees i
Madison' daughter Pula, a child
care peel Ii t who a maste in
reading and child care certificate.
She pi the day to day activitie
and her mother Bertha P. volunteers.
The building that CDC occupie
wa built around 1915, Madi on
Staj[ JJnter
Owner Ruth Ander on of
Tiffany's Soul Food Restaur t
tries to ere, te a pleasant and peace­
ful atmosphere for her customer .
Even though the rest urant has
only been open for one year,
Anderson has many future pi al­
ready in view.
Anderson wants to provide an
o dies but goodies night well as
live entertainment performed by
musician John J ohnson, J 0 on
presently plays jazz, blues, and
pirituals every Friday and S tur­
day. J ohosou . d, -It' great" for
the lUtauralDl
CURRENTL�ANDERSON'
aitiog OIl the tale to grant her a
liquor license which has aheady
YCd by Highland Park.
ys . es a wide variety of
mash polatOCl,
beans, liver, b tJye
d much more. Pendin on
popularity, Tiffany's' open from 7
&om. til10 p.m.
. A det on's advice to future
busmel& owners is "U ndef$tand
ba to do. .• you ha to
to that . If you
time, then go for it"
ot ollly does Anderson de\ue
to the r taw .
also a full-time nurse.
RESTORE
CONFIDENCE
IN CITY
GOVERNMENT
V S 10
CHARLIE P.
DAVIS
Form.r Counctlman ., 880-0 -
I
Tiff y' i located at
13300 Woodward.
10,
1
ppllcatlon for 18tratlon to �h City CI rk
hland Park, Ichlgan, -In ccord no with
up to nd Including th
1·
u
rk'. offlc will
o n t following houra for
PrIm ry
, 1 91 8:00 A.
thru ThumallV
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