SW 2000 Chapter : Exam 2- Chapters 7,8,9
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Even with income, the inability to access adequate resources, due to barriers such as racial discrimination, increases many of the problems addressed by social work such as poor health or unemployment. As a result, social workers view poverty and the inability to access adequate resources as a primary target for their efforts to improve the conditions of their clients. 169. 3 million: poverty rose among all racial and ethnic groups except asians. The number of hispanics in poverty increased from 25. 3 percent to 26. 6 percent; for blacks it rose from 25. 8 percent to 27. 4 percent and for asians it was flat at 12. 1 percent. That"s the second-highest percentage in the nation and the south. The southern average is 29%. (2000 kids count data book: thirty-five percent of children in louisiana live with parents who do not have full-time, year- round jobs. That"s the second-worst rate in the nation and the south.
