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31/10/2017

The new data also show, as they’ve shown since these statistics first became available in the 1960s, that black people in the United States have a much higher risk of living in poverty than white people. But poverty, a deeper look at the data shows, does not simply boil down to a matter of black and white.

Census Bureau researchers base their poverty figures on a market-basket approach, with a formula derived originally from the cost of an emergency food budget and then corrected for family size, age, and inflation. In 2011, under this formula, families of four rated as poor if their income fell below $23,000.
Many people — including many college students who enroll in courses about poverty and social policy — assume that black means poor. Why this assumption? Massive racial inequality certainly plays a major role.

To take but two examples: Black household income stood at only 55 percent of white household income in 2011, an even smaller share than 1999’s 63 percent. Black unemployment in August 2012 ran twice white unemployment, 14.1 to 7.2 percent.

Black people currently make up about 13.8 percent of the U.S. population, and about 27 percent of these Americans fall below the poverty line. The population overall rates as about 15 percent poor. So black people in the United States face nearly twice the risk of living in poverty as average Americans.

This elevated risk reflects past and current institutional practices that put blacks and other minorities at a disadvantage. But it’s also true that almost three-quarters of black incomes do not fall below the poverty line. Collapsing poor and black as if all poor were black and all blacks poor turns the “poverty” problem into a “race” problem.

The white poverty rate does run much lower than the black rate, just under 10 percent, one-third of the black rate. But the white poor outnumber the black poor considerably, 19 to 7.8 million. White people make up 42 percent of America’s poor, black people about 28 percent.

The basic numbers don’t change when we look at people living in extreme poverty, in households making less than 50 percent of the meager poverty line. Of the 20 million people who live at this alarming level of want and deprivation, about 42 percent are white, 27 percent black.

These data have political implications that racial stereotyping usually shroud from public view. Many white people who don’t live anywhere near poverty, even many who consider themselves liberal, think blacks compose most of the poor. Large numbers of these white Americans feel no emotional connection to the problems poor people face. They perceive poverty as a problem of some other community, not their own.

If those white Americans who felt this way actually had to confront the demographic reality of poverty, if they came to understand that white people make up the single largest group of the poor, how white America thinks about poverty and policy might start changing.

Well-meaning white Americans have for decades been aware that black people face the risk of poverty than whites. But “poverty,” we all need to understand, is more and different than “race.”

31/10/2017

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31/10/2017

Social inclusion: Let’s do things differently to end poverty!

SUBMITTED BY MANINDER GILL ON WED, 10/25/2017
CO-AUTHORS: LISA SCHMIDT
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On October 17, 2017, End Poverty Day, 33 World Bank offices in Africa came together to talk about poverty and social inclusion. We were excited of course, but were totally unprepared for what we saw! The 750 “in-person” participants in the field offices could not get enough of the discussion. Every country made brief but powerful, and highly inspiring, presentations on social inclusion. They highlighted the work of a host of actors—civil society organizations, local communities, faith-based organizations, youth groups, government agencies, and World Bank staff—to make a real difference in the lives of some of the most excluded people in Africa, such as people with albinism, orphans, street children, and women who experience gender-based violence (GBV).

What did we learn?

Ending global poverty will require urgent, decisive action in Africa, and a social inclusion lens will be indispensable to accomplish this. There are efforts being made all across the continent by governments, the private sector, and development partners to promote access to education, economic opportunities, and civic engagement, with the potential to lift large number of people out of poverty.

However, as things stand, several groups in Africa are not able to make use of these opportunities because of who they are. They face exclusion based on their identity—just, for example, because they have a physical disability or because they are forcibly displaced, or have been victims of sexual and gender-based violence. This leads to their lower social standing and inferior outcomes for them, too, on income, endowments of human capital, access to employment and services, and on voice in national and local decision making.

Consider some of these facts:

46 percent of the women in Africa have experienced some form of sexual violence (World Health Organization 2013);
Africa is hosting 5.1 million refugees (UNHCR 2017), with dire consequences for the living conditions of both refugees and host communities;
The almost 1 in 10 working-age adults in Africa who have a disability face stigma and discrimination, leading to their lower education and labor market outcomes (Mitra et al. 2011, 2013).
A strong focus on social inclusion is an essential step in the effort to level the playing field for these and other vulnerable groups.

So, what needs to be done?

Moving towards social inclusion means improving the ability, opportunity, and dignity of the excluded groups to take part in society. Fortunately, we at the World Bank have some experiences to build upon:

Interventions in the Great Lakes region and Uganda are focusing on the prevention and response to gender-based violence (GBV). I have had the opportunity to talk to girls and women abused during the violent conflict in the South Kivu province of DRC. As part of a World Bank project, they are provided medical, legal, psycho-social and economic support to help them recover and rejoin their communities as active, productive members of society.
A regional project in the Horn of Africa is responding to the needs of host communities to enable them to absorb and work with refugees and internally displaced persons better.
Operations in several countries have supported the demobilization of ex-combatants and reintegration into their communities, providing them with skills training, access to credit, and other livelihood-related opportunities. I recently met several ex-combatants in Goma in the DRC, and heard first-hand how they had learnt new skills and were successfully running small businesses to support their families.
In these and other interventions, emphasis is placed on community-driven, participative processes, to make sure citizen engagement and voice are key mechanisms to help ensure inclusion.

To end poverty, we need to take such approaches to scale and tailor them to the specific needs of different groups. That is what I got a glimpse of in the presentations on Africa End Poverty Day. The infectious enthusiasm and excitement of local action groups in countries across Africa can be a powerful force for positive change. From their energy and palpable commitment, it seemed they wanted to go far beyond ending poverty, as difficult and challenging as that goal might be.

31/10/2017

You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.

31/10/2017

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