12/12/06  Family Values translates into economic statistics.             
Compete America        National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE)

  Family Values translates into economic statistics.         U.S. Divorce Rate: 50%
China's Divorce Rate: 14%          India's Divorce Rate: 1% 

Chinese and Indian students combined account for 50 % of all advanced science and math graduate degrees awarded yearly by U.S. universities. 

In America,  70 percent of long term prisoners, 60 percent of rapists, and 75 percent of adolescents charged with murder grew up without fathers. " No urban reform could have a greater effect, if successful, than attacking the culture of single parenthood." - Heather MacDonald, Read more...

Consequently, no reform policy to strengthen families in Camden could compare to daily exposure to strong family role models.

"From the 1880's to the 1920'sthe immigrant workers of that era generally met or exceeded the skill levels of the native-born American's."  Today, when success in our economy requires ever more skills and education, the vast majority of immigrants arrive without necessary  skills or the education to contribute Read More.  

Today's work visa policy regarding skilled immigrations requires that the applicant have a corporate sponsor, which is virtually always located in a suburban municipality office park, thereby keeping many American cities like Camden in a state of perpetual ruin, as official policy diverts skilled workers, and their families, away from cities, their historic destination, and into surrounding suburban areas instead.