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  1.                                                                                 THE WEEK, Page 15NATIONGrowing Up Poor in The U.S.
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  4.     The child poverty rate rose by more than 11% during the
  5. 1980s, reaching 17.9% in 1989. Black children were the most
  6. likely to fall into this group. In 1989 a black child had a 39.8%
  7. chance of living in poverty, a Native American child a 38.8%
  8. chance and a Hispanic child a 32.2% chance. The figure for Asian
  9. children was 17.1% and for white children 12.5%.
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