However, some broadly supported new ideas can renew their communities and provide them with opportunities for prosperity. Common sense policies that turn plight into prosperity should be considered . When one pierces the rhetoric and looks at the issues that affect the futures of minority Americans, it s clear that new ideas deserve their support. Liberals and conservatives alike agree that a better education is the path out of poverty. A recent poll issued by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a think tank specializing in issues of race, found that a majority of minority voters aged 26 to 35 support school choice.
Choice gives parents more control over their children s education.
Social Security Social Security payments take a cut out of every dollar most workers earn. However, minority workers have a lower life expectancy, meaning that they will collect Social Security benefits for fewer years than other workers. For example, according to a Heritage Foundation analysis, a black male can expect less than 88 cents back for every dollar he puts into the system - a negative return on his investment. The U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, headed by former Democrat Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, concluded, immigration of unskilled immigrants comes at a cost to unskilled U.S. workers. And the Center for Immigration Studies calculates that immigration may reduce the wages of the average native in a low-skilled occupation by . . .