1 in 7 American Kids Live in Poverty
More than 11 million children were estimated to be living in poverty in 2021, according to U.S. Census Bureau data published by the Children’s Defense Fund.
That equates to around one in seven children in the U.S., or 15.3 percent. It’s a high toll, and one even higher than the adult population, which was 10.5 percent for 19-64 year olds that year and 10.3 percent for adults aged 65+.
According to an analysis by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, this difference is due to factors such as the “cost of caregiving and its responsibilities, transitions to a single parenthood household, unemployment of parents, and disabilities of family members.”
As Statista’s Anna Fleck shows in [this chart], poverty levels are disproportionately higher among non-White populations.
American Indian/Alaska Native children were particularly overrepresented, with 29.1 percent of this group living in poverty in 2021, followed closely behind by Black children at 27.1 percent, versus a comparatively low 8.8 percent of white children.
In terms of absolute numbers, Hispanic children were the biggest group, with 4,168,000 registered as poor in 2021, according to the source, or 37.4 percent of all children who were in poverty.
Other patterns in the data highlighted by the Childrens’ Defense Foundation include the regional divide, with the South showing a child poverty prevalence of nearly 20 percent, or one in five children. This drops to below 15 percent in the Northeast, Midwest and West (closer to one in seven).
Perhaps the starkest figure though, is for children living in a single female-headed household, where nearly four in ten (37.1 percent) were living in poverty in 2021.
UN Announces Plan to Ban Most Farming, Triggering the Starvation of Billions
WATCH: James O’Keefe Reveals How Senior Air Force Figures Hide DEI Policies from Public Scrutiny
In a new bombshell undercover video, James O’Keefe and OMG media reveal that senior members of the US Air Force manipulate diversity-related job titles in order to make it seem as if the service is less “diversity-oriented” than it actually is.
An undercover journalist caught Jake Reyna, an operations research analyst for the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force, making claims about the cover-up in a 15-minute video that was posted to Twitter on Thursday.
Reyna claimed that the secret policy was intended to prevent Republicans from “f*ck[ing] with the DEI system.”
“We basically contacted everybody who had a title like that [i.e. diversity-related] and got them to sneakily change their title so it doesn’t sound as diversity oriented even though it is,” Reyna confessed.
BREAKING: DEI Conspiracy in Air Force: “We basically contacted everybody who had a title like that and got them to sneakily change their title so it doesn’t sound as diversity oriented even though it is,” reveals Jake Reyna, @DeptofDefense and @USAirForce Operations Research… pic.twitter.com/lzNix6fUYw
— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) May 22, 2024
Reyna stated that DEI training is now mandatory for airmen, and if they object and refuse to participate, they will be sanctioned and even dishonorably discharged.
The unwitting informant also stated that the Air Force has no data to back up its DEI policies.
The reporter asks Reyna, “In your experience, have you seen or have you come across any data that actually serves as evidence that indeed DEIA candidates or troops perform better than non-DEIA troops?”
The response: “No, I don’t think so.”
Reyna then goes on to say that he believes white men are “definitely stupid” and “definitely suck,” and that he believes they make the military weaker.
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“This Isn’t a Conspiracy”: Watch RFK Jr. Lay Out How and Why the CIA Killed His Uncle
In an appearance with Tim Pool, independent presidential candidate RFK Jr. laid out how and why the CIA, in concert with organized crime, assassinated his uncle John F. Kennedy. The assassination was part of his uncle’s larger battle with the military-industrial complex.
“The group that killed him was a group from the Miami Station and they were angry at him for his failure to overthrow Castro, and they were angry at him because he was pulling out of Vietnam.”
“He (Ron Paul) said the CIA killed your uncle. Do you think so?
— Mythinformed (@MythinformedMKE) May 25, 2024
Yeah”
RFK Jr. explains to Tim Pool why he thinks the CIA assassinated President John F. Kennedy. pic.twitter.com/RlYgwUmcfT
RFK Jr. laid out in detail how members of the CIA colluded with “mobsters” who had been involved in the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion and other attempts to oust or assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
He also laid out the key role of CIA director Allen Dulles, whom his uncle fired after the Bay of Pigs. According to RFK Jr., Dulles continued to direct the CIA after his dismissal, and he was also instrumental in ensuring the Warren Commission, convened after President Kennedy’s assassination, directed its attention away from the CIA.
“This isn’t a ‘conspiracy theory’,” RFK Jr. added.
“But the good news is, the CIA has since been reformed and held accountable,” Pool joked, after being told the lengthy story.
“Absolutely!” replied RFK Jr.
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One in Nine US Children Diagnosed with ADHD
Just over seven million US children, or one in nine, have now received a diagnosis of ADHD, according to findings published in the Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology.
The study also shows that approximately one million more children aged 3-17 received an ADHD diagnosis in 2022 than in 2016.
Among children currently living with ADHD, 58.1% were classed as having moderate or severe symptoms.
77.9% have a co-occurring disorder, 53.6% received medication and 44.4% received behavioral treatment in the last year. Around 30% received no specific treatment.
The results of the new study were taken from analysis of the 2022 National Survey of Children’s Health. They show that the estimated prevalence of the ADHD, according to parental reporting, is significant higher in the US than in other countries.
The study authors believe that increased awareness of the condition is largely responsible for the increase in diagnoses.
“Public awareness of ADHD has changed over time. ADHD was historically described as an externalizing disorder with a focus on easily observable hyperactive-impulsive symptoms, and was thought to primarily affect boys,” the authors say.
“With increased awareness of symptoms related to attention regulation, ADHD has been increasingly recognized in girls, adolescents, and adults. Moreover, ADHD has previously been diagnosed at lower rates among children in some racial and ethnic minority groups. With increased awareness, such gaps in diagnoses have been narrowing or closing.”
The authors also believe that the pandemic brought greater awareness of the condition, as parents were forced to look after their children and manage their learning at home.
“Circumstances related to the pandemic may also have increased the likelihood that a child’s ADHD symptoms could cause impairment. For example, in families where children needed to engage in virtual classroom learning while parents were also working from home, previously manageable ADHD symptoms may have become more impairing or symptoms that were previously unobserved by parents may have become recognizable.”
The study also revealed that Asian and Hispanic children have a lower prevalence of ADHD than white children; that children with less well-educated and poorer parents had a higher prevalence; and that children in the Northeast, Midwest and South were more likely to be diagnosed, as were children living in rural or suburban as opposed to urban areas.
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At Least 90% of Welfare Recipients in Maine City Are Migrants
A city in Maine is considering issuing a new ordinance to allow private dwellings, churches and community centers to be turned into emergency homeless shelters, as the city is flooded with migrants.
The new ordinance would not force private owners in Westbrook to give over space to house the homeless, but it would allow homes or churches to become homeless shelters if the owners wished.
“What we can afford in this ordinance are shelters in single family homes which are deemed to be emergency shelter families,” said Jennie Franceschi, Westbrook Director of Planning and Code Enforcement .
“A church that has a room that they utilize for the purposes of baked bean suppers or educational or social needs could then take that room and make it into a shelter if the needs of the community necessitated it.”
At a City Council meeting on April 9, the official running Westbrook’s welfare program revealed that 90% to 95% of all welfare recipients in the city are now migrants, or “New Mainers” as he put it.
Cumberland County, of which Westbrook is a part, has seen massive increases in migrant arrivals in recent months.
Westbrook residents have expressed their worry that new measures to accommodate these migrants could impose a significant tax burden on private owners in the city.
“I do not believe the entire homeless shelter proposal is beneficial to the property taxpayers and residents of the city of Westbrook,” said resident Martin Malia, in an email that was read at a public meeting of the Planning Board.
“Last year, the property taxpayers were burdened with an 8.8 [%] tax increase,” he added, claiming that the new measures proposed would increase property taxes by a further 11.4%.
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Putin Says Zelensky Is ‘No Longer Ukraine’s Legitimate President’
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy no longer has legitimacy following the expiry of his five-year term. Putin also said that this would raise a legal obstacle if Russia and […]
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