The Link Between Teen Births and Poverty

Baltimore's teen birth rate dropped 40 percent from 1991 to 2004. Various think tanks and governmental agencies have praised this drop, as well as a similar drop nationally, because of the relatively unreported link between teen births and poverty -– which leads to problems with crime, education, and housing. The more unwed teen mothers, the more school drop-outs, the more unemployment, the more poverty, say many experts.