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KIDS COUNT: A portrait of poverty in Puerto Rico.

El 56% de los niños puertorriqueños vive en la pobreza.

The National Council of La Raza reported through the report "Our children have" that 56 percent of children in Puerto Rico living in poverty, more than triple that in U.S..

organization dedicated to defending civil rights of Hispanics in the United States occurred in San Juan a study that shows the alarming situation being experienced by a representative of the children of the island.

"KIDS COUNT - Puerto Rico Data Book 2010" contains figures which point to the island as U.S. jurisdiction with the highest rates of teenage parents in the municipality of Vieques reaches to 114 per 1,000 women aged between 15 and 19.

KIDS COUNT - Puerto Rico is an effort to annually collect and analyze data relating to children to improve the welfare of the youth of Puerto Rico. The report KIDS COUNT - Puerto Rico Data Book 2010 provides statistical information on the conditions of children in Puerto Rico and in each of its 78 municipalities. The data presented in this book were obtained from the Division of Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health Department of Puerto Rico and the Population Division and the American Community Survey Census Bureau U.S.. - Nayda Rivera-Hernandez & Veronica L. Andino-Ortiz (March 2, 2011)

Puerto Rico is also the jurisdiction States with the highest number of teens not in school nor working, a situation which is 14.6 percent of that group.

The report's lead author and researcher at the National Council of La Raza, Nayda Rivera Hernandez, traced through the data provided in the report, a worrying picture of the country's children, especially when compared with U.S..

For example, in 2007-the year to which they relate most survey data, the births of babies with low birth weight under 2,500 grams, accounted for 11 percent of the total, although in some districts figure was around 20 percent.

Puerto Rican women are also particularly susceptible to premature births, before 37 weeks gestation, which in 2007 were 19.5 percent of the women in the country.

Rivera Hernández stressed that some of the problems stem from low academic levels of children and youth in the country, as reflected in the report, which notes that in the period 2006-2008 by 8, 4 percent of adolescents between 16 and 19 did not attend school or had graduated from high school.

The figure is higher than the U.S., where the situation was only 6.5 percent of adolescents in this age group.

As the figure for the lack of financial resources between 2006 and 2008 a total of 545,000 children lived in Puerto Rico in poverty, ie a family of four with less than $ 21,834 a year, which Office of Management and Budget considers U.S. poverty line.

poverty level at that time ranged from 35 percent of the district of Trujillo Alto, close to the metropolitan area, and 77.8 percent in Orocovis, in the middle of the country.

The alarming poverty rate in that period meant that 47.1 percent of Puerto Rican children receive public assistance, more than half the U.S. rate.

Support focuses on rural municipalities in the interior, while the San Juan metropolitan area are relatively low.

poverty in Puerto Rico, according to the report, is related to low family income between 2006 and 2008 reached annually on the island of $ 20,795 compared to 60,764 U.S..

The study points out that another reason for the country's poverty is that by 49.7 for Puerto Rican children living in single parent families, compared with 32 percent of the U.S..

The research was funded by the Annie Casey Foundation and the Graduate School of Public Health, University of Puerto Rico.

E NLAC s with the study (p df ):

http://www.nclr.org/index.php/publications/nuestros_nios_cuentan_puerto_rico_libro_de_datos_2010/

http://es.scribd.com/doc/50954970/Estudio-Nuestros-Ninos-Cuentan-National-Council-of-La-Raza

UN Liaison / Declaration of the Rights of Children:

http://www.un.org/es/events/ childrenday /

Additional note .- I have used this information to present a brief sample of work in Puerto Rico photographic images of Jack Delano.

Delano Born in Kiev, Russia in 1914. The family moved to the United States in 1923. Roy Stryker was invited to join the federal Farm Security Administration (Farm Security Administration) as part of a small group of photographers. In 1941, Delano moved to Puerto Rico where he worked as a photographer and music composer. Delano died in Puerto Rico on August 12, 1997.

In 1941 he was assigned to travel to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands to document the situation of rural communities. His wife, Irene Esser Delano, will accompany his visit to Puerto Rico being happy with people and the beauty of the island. Jack Delano returned to America in 1942 and in 1945 he was awarded a Guggenheim Foundation grant to make a book of photographs of Puerto Rico, work postponed until 1946 when he returned to Puerto Rico, where he worked as a documentary photographer Information Office of Puerto Rico.

On our island, Jack Delano founded the Film Section of the Commission of Public Parks and Recreation of Puerto Rico and assisted in the founding and development of the Division Community Education Department (DIVEDCO) Public Education of Puerto Rico and organized the department of film production.

Jack Delano produced and directed several educational films, such as Reed and The Voice on the Mountain (1947), a drop of water from the clouds (1948), Jesus T. Piñero (1949), The man's hands (1950) and Puerto Rican classic film, The players (1951). His work included composing pieces of music for several films mentioned above and write the screenplay for The man's hands. She also participated in poster design.

two decades of the fifties and sixties of last century led to Jack Delano to continue expressing his inexhaustible artistic creativity through the independent production Documentary, book illustration, photography, musical composition, directing and producing for television, including the Casals Festival since its inception in 1958 - and the design of sets, among others.

His work Photo of the thirties and forties of the twentieth century were published in books and magazines such as Portrait of a Decade, In This Proud Land, Social Documentary Photography in the USA, The People of Puerto Rico: A Political and Cultural History, Economic History of Puerto Rico, Masters of the Camera.

was worthy of recognition for his contribution to music, such as Ateneo awards of Albertus Magnus College, the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture and the American Society for Composers, Authors and Publishers. "

Jack Delano donated his photographic collection Contrasts: Forty years of change and continuity in Puerto Rico at the Museo de Arte de Ponce. Among his publications are Elders trees, magical trees, from San Juan to Ponce on the train, In search of the Master Lamb and the day the town said goodbye to Muñoz.

anthropologist John Hopkins University, Sydney W. Mintz, a specialist in the Caribbean region has published several books on Puerto Rico, has stated that Jack Delano's photographs are unique in documenting "the serene nobility of a people enduring triumph intact, untouched and authentic."

Among many awards, Jack Delano received the title of Doctor of Arts, Honoris Causa, University of the Sacred Heart in 1987 and Doctor of Humanities, Honoris Causa, University of Puerto Rico in 1991 .

'love and respect captured in his portraits Delano let me clear that greater recognition was being part of our people and their reality, hopes, dreams and struggles.

All photographs presented on this field are the lens of Jack Delano. I think that everyone who is interested in Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans have the duty and the challenge of knowing the images, faces and landscapes of our history and work of one of the true 'gringarriqueños' as it was Jack Delano an unavoidable commitment. ROF

Thanks to contributions on the biography of Jack Delano to Luis Muñoz Marín Foundation. ROF