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$100,000 Campaign In 2005, 18 percent of all children ages 0–17 lived in poverty, unchanged from 2004. The poverty rate was higher for Black children and for Hispanic children than for White, non-Hispanic children. In 2005, 10 percent of White, non-Hispanic children lived in poverty, compared with 35 percent of Black children and 28 percent of Hispanic children 8 percent of 8th-graders, 17 percent of 10th-graders, and 22 percent of 12th-graders reported illicit drug use in the past 30 days in 2006. Between 1980 and 2002, at least 3 of every 4 murder victims ages 15–17 were killed with a firearm. More than one-third of juvenile victims of violent crime known to law enforcement are under age 12. On a typical day in 2004, about 7,000 persons younger than 18 were inmates in adult jails. Nearly 9 in 10 were being held as adults. Five million children die from malnutrition around the world every year. "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do." -Dale Carnegie
That is why Historia Unlimited
is directing it's resources to assisting
the livelihood of our youth. We are hitting the streets of our community
seeking out people who believe that children are the future and don't mind putting up
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