Sentences with phrase «percent of white children»

In 2015, 34 percent of black children were living with two parents, compared with 83 percent of Asian children, 74 percent of white children, and 60 percent of Hispanic children.

In 2015, eight percent of all black children did not live with either parent, compared with four percent of Hispanic children, three percent of white children, and two percent of Asian children.

As of 1991, the bureau reports, 57.5 percent of black children lived with one parent, compared with 19.5 percent of white children, and 29.8 percent of Hispanic children.

But long - term poverty was much rarer: One percent of white children and 30 percent of black children were poor for at least two - thirds of their childhoods.

They found that about 25 percent of white children, and an astounding 79 percent of black children, were poor for at least a year during their childhoods.

For example, in 1998, 48 percent of black children age six and younger lived in families that were below 125 percent of the poverty line, compared with 24 percent of white children.

For example, according to the advisory, 13.8 percent of African American children have high blood pressure, compared to 8.4 percent of white children.

Twenty percent of African American children aged 2 to 19 years old are obese compared to 15 percent of white children.

Not exact matches

Only 54 percent of children under age 18 are white non-Hispanics compared with 80 percent of people over age 65.

According to the U.S. Census, by «2020 less than half of children in the United States are projected to be non-Hispanic white alone (49.8 percent of the projected 73.9 million children under age 18).»»

According to the most recent census data, only 1.1 percent of non-Hispanic white women bear five or six children over the course of their lifetime.

Clearly, traditional Christmas carols can't be sung (there's a large university near where I live that attracts graduate students from all over the world, as well as a substantial local Jewish community, and probably not more than 60 or 70 percent of the children at the school are from even nominally Christian households), so most of the singing is of songs of the saccharine - secular genre — songs like «White Christmas.»

Furthermore, demographer Larry Bumpass says that «life table estimates suggest that 17 percent of white women and 70 percent of black women will have a child while unmarried if recent levels persist.»

For the study, Chen and McElwain examined data from 913 study children (50 percent were boys; 78 percent were non-Hispanic white) and their friends who were participants in the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development.

More than 60 percent of African American, Latino, and American Indian children live in low - income families, compared to about 30 percent of white and Asian children.

The mean age of the children was 11; about 40 percent were Hispanic, about 30 percent were Asian, about 25 percent were Black, and about 5 percent were White.

More than 60 percent of black, Hispanic, and Native American kids live in low - income families, compared to 30 percent of Asian and white children — a dynamic largely unchanged since 2008.

More than 60 percent of black, Hispanic, and Native American kids live in low - income families, compared to 30 percent of Asian and white children — a dynamic largely unchanged in recent years.

White children lived in Los Angeles neighborhoods where, on average, 32 percent of the children in their neighborhood were Latino and 46 percent were wWhite children lived in Los Angeles neighborhoods where, on average, 32 percent of the children in their neighborhood were Latino and 46 percent were whitewhite.

In 2010, Latino children, on average, lived in Los Angeles neighborhoods where 75 percent of the children in their neighborhood were also Latino and 9 percent were white.

Both Latino and white children in Miami in 2010 lived in neighborhoods where, on average, more than 60 percent of the children were Latino.

Children with parent - reported ADHD represented 8.8 percent of the 76,227 children, and were more likely to be male, aged 12 — 17 and non-HispaniChildren with parent - reported ADHD represented 8.8 percent of the 76,227 children, and were more likely to be male, aged 12 — 17 and non-Hispanichildren, and were more likely to be male, aged 12 — 17 and non-Hispanic white.

Lead study author Dr. Daniel Lacorazza noted that «acute lymphoblastic leukemia is a type of cancer of the white blood cells common in children... there is about an 80 percent cure rate, but some children don't respond to treatment.

12 percent of white and Asian children lived in poor families, compared with 36 percent of black children, 30 percent of Hispanic children, 33 percent of American Indian children, and 19 percent of others.

The percentage of white children in single - mother families where the mother does not have a high school degree has remained essentially unchanged at about 18 percent, but has increased from 10 % to 21 % for those families where the mother has a high school diploma (but not a college degree).

[1] Using data from the American Community Survey, they show that in 2015 just over half of American children aged 5 to 17 were white, but nearly 80 percent of young teachers (whom they define as individuals aged 25 to 34, with a bachelor's degree, and teaching at the prekindergarten through high school level) were white.

Related disparities arose in births out of marriage and in children living with a single parent — not much change in Belmont, a great change in Fishtown: almost 30 percent of white births are now nonmarital, up from just a few percent in 1960.

Among the examples it uses to refute those myths are that in 1990, white women had more than half of all the babies born to unmarried women; that in 1992, 56 percent of all poor children lived in suburbs or rural areas; and that families on welfare have on average...

At the same time, I do not want to diminish the importance of ethnic and racial cultural competency in particular, given that our teaching force is more than 80 percent white, while over half of children born today are racial minorities.

Sixty - four percent of white public school parents expect their child to attend college full time, compared with 57 % of blacks and 47 % of Hispanics.

However, there was a 24 percentage point gap between white adults who have a college degree and those who don't; 80 percent of whites with a degree said they'd want their child to go to a four - year college, compared with 56 percent who don't have a degree.

Among KIPP teachers, it says, there are «young parents who leave at 5 p.m. to pick up their children from daycare, part - time teachers who job share, and teachers who continue to work past 5 p.m.» It says 53 percent of KIPP teachers are white and 47 percent are African American, Hispanic or Asian American.

For poor and minority students, risks are higher: 26 percent of those who face the «double jeopardy» of poverty and low reading proficiency fail to earn high school diplomas, and Hispanic and African American children who lack proficiency by third grade are twice as likely to drop out of school as their white counterparts.

The rate of suspensions for Black children in Kent is double the 11.8 percent suspension rate for White children, who, by the way, make up 65.6 percent of students in the district.

In fact, Black children account for 78.8 percent of all children suspended by the district in 2013 - 2014 — or four out of ever five kids suspended one or more times that year — while White peers accounted for a mere 33.7 percent of students suspended.

A recent study noted that parents whose children attend schools with mostly white students are much more likely to rate their child's school as excellent: 61 percent of Black parents whose child attends a school with mostly white students rate their child's school as excellent, compared to only 14 percent of Black parents whose child attends a school with mostly Black students.

In a district that is about 53 percent black and 39 percent white, children share the same resources, teachers, and the same well - stocked classrooms and school buildings, regardless of their race or economic status.

Though white children are still the majority in this age group — 52 percent — Latino children are projected to make up about a third of total pre-K-12 enrollment by 2023.

Which is what both Cut the Gap in Half does (by setting lower levels for districts improving proficiency for minority students versus white and Asian peers), and No Child waiver gambit tacitly endorses (by allowing states to only focus on the worst five percent of school districts and at least ten percent of districts with wide achievement gaps).

While each subgroup of students — including economically disadvantaged children — made progress this year, achievement gaps remained stubbornly large: 92 percent of white students were proficient in reading, for example, compared with 52 percent of Hispanic students, 44 percent of black students and 42 percent of poor children.

Close to 3 out of 4 African Americans live within 30 miles of a coal - fired power plant, and African - American children have an 80 percent higher rate of asthma and are nearly three times more likely to die from asthma than their white peers.

The program of prenatal and infancy home visiting by nurses, tested with a primarily white sample, produced a 48 percent treatment - control difference in the overall rates of substantiated rates of child abuse and neglect (irrespective of risk) and an 80 percent difference for families in which the mothers were low - income and unmarried at registration.21 Corresponding rates of child maltreatment were too low to serve as a viable outcome in a subsequent trial of the program in a large sample of urban African - Americans, 20 but program effects on children's health - care encounters for serious injuries and ingestions at child age 2 and reductions in childhood mortality from preventable causes at child age 9 were consistent with the prevention of abuse and neglect.20, 22

Despite the significant impact of maternal depression on mothers and children alike, maternal mental health needs are often neglected or undiagnosed.18 Prevalence rates of maternal depression are high among low - income women due to the greater challenges they may face related to financial hardships, low levels of community or familial support, and societal prejudice.19 In fact, the prevalence of maternal depression among low - income women in the United States is double the prevalence rate for all U.S. women.20 At the same time, these women are less likely to receive treatment or be screened for postpartum depression.21 Studies show there are clear racial and ethnic disparities in who accesses treatment in the United States, even among women of the same general socio - economic status: In a multiethnic cohort of lower - income Medicaid recipients, 9 percent of white women sought treatment, compared with 4 percent of African American women and 5 percent of Latinas.22

More than half of black and Hispanic children live in low - income families, compared to less than 20 percent of Asian and white children; the state average is 32 percent.

Fifty percent of children adopted privately from the United States are white, while only 19 % of children adopted internationally are white.

Babies born today mark the first generation where whites make up only 50 percent of the population, and in a few years, white children will no longer make up the majority, according to U.S. Census data.