Knox County lands on poverty warning list, By Tom Loewy, May 5, 2010, Galesburg Register-Mail: “Heartland Alliance’s Social Impact Research Center released some bad news for Illinois in the form of the 2010 Report on Poverty. And the news for Knox County – released Tuesday on www.heartlandalliance.org/povertyreport – wasn’t any better. According to Amy Terpstra, associate director of the research center, Knox County was one of 29 counties placed on Heatland Alliance’s ‘Poverty Warning List’ for 2010. The county was on the ‘Poverty Watch List’ – ranking above the warning list – in 2009. ‘Counties on the warning list fared very poorly in two areas: the high school graduation rate and the teen pregnancy rate,’ Terpstra said. ‘Those are indicators of the poverty in the future. The main indicators we used to gauge present poverty was the unemployment rate and poverty rate…'”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty