Latino Families Suffering

It seems that studies done by The Pew Hispanic Center has come to the conclusion that Latino children are growing in poverty in high numbers in the city of Texas. A sociologist at the University of Houston said, "If 6 million kids are being brought up in poverty, that dosen't give them much hope for the future. They are likely to end up in poverty for the rest of their lives." This to me was shocking because the facts are that if a person is in poverty they have less opportunities to get ahead in life. They wont have the tools to be ahead in school. They will have to get low paying jobs to help the family and wont be able to persue a career for themselves. It is also true that hispanics tend to have large families where chances are they will always have high numbers in poverty. The article also states that Hispanics have a 11.1 percent unemployment rate compared with an overall rate of 9.1 percent. The article gives the facts on Latino families but the important thing in the article is that it states that education is the key to overcome. It is a hard road to go thru but it is possible. Most kids neglect school because no one at school motivates them. There parents are always working since most work two jobs to get the basics.  Both schools and parents need to help in this situations which is harder now since schools have had budget cuts and families have to keep changing jobs. www.chron.com/news