Reducing the child poverty rate for African Americans (37.1 percent) and Latinos (31.9 percent) to that of whites (12.3 percent) would lift 2.7 million and 3.5 million children, respectively, out of poverty, a report from the Urban Institute finds. According to the report, What Would Substantially Increased Mobility From Poverty Look Like (20 pages, PDF), people who experience poverty as children are more than twice as likely as people who didn't to be poor as adults, while African Americans who did not grow up poor are just as likely to be poor as adults as those who did. Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the report also found that inflation-adjusted incomes for those in the bottom quintile rose less than 1 percent between 1973 and 2014; that even within the same quintiles African-American children are less likely than white children to earn more in their thirties than their parents did; and that among children raised in the bottom income quintile, 37 percent were still in the bottom quintile as adults, while 16 percent had moved up to the middle and only 5 percent had made it to the top.