re: Does it seem incredible to anyone else that half of all american children are on medicaid?

Posted on 9/5/17 at 2:44 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!

Posted by RogerTheShrubber

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Posted on 9/5/17 at 2:44 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!

The people who can't afford kids are the ones having kids.

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Posted by Kentucker

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Posted on 9/5/17 at 3:07 pm to RogerTheShrubber

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The people who can't afford kids are the ones having kids.

Half of all children born in the US begin life on WIC, the welfare program for women, infants and children and stay on it for their first five years. What does that say about our society? Children begin life on welfare. I'm sure a lot of them stay on welfare of some kind all of their lives.

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Posted by mizzoubuckeyeiowa

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Posted on 9/5/17 at 11:16 pm to RogerTheShrubber

Racial and ethnic minorities accounted for 91.7% of the nation’s growth over the last decade; non-Hispanic whites accounted for the remaining 8.3%.

Related to their younger age profiles, racial and ethnic minority groups also include a higher share of women in the prime child-bearing ages of 20-34.

Another important part of the explanation for changing birth patterns is that minority populations are younger than whites, so are more likely to be having and raising children. Non-Hispanic whites have the oldest median age, 42.3, in 2011, according to the population estimates. Hispanics have the youngest, 27.6.