The recession’s toll: Number of N.J. children with an unemployed parent has spiked dramatically, Census says, By Stephen Stirling, August 29, 2013, Star-Ledger: “A new U.S. Census study shows New Jersey is slowly crawling back after faltering dramatically during the Great Recession. And families with children may have the highest climb. The number of New Jersey families with children who have at least one unemployed parent has risen sharply since 2005, at nearly double the national rate…”
Month: August 2013
Economic Inequality and Race
Fifty years after March on Washington, economic gap between blacks, whites persists, By Michael A. Fletcher, August 27, 2013, Washington Post: “Even as racial barriers have tumbled and the nation has grown wealthier and better educated, the economic disparities separating blacks and whites remain as wide as they were when marchers assembled on the Mall in 1963. When it comes to household income and wealth, the gaps between blacks and whites have widened. On other measures, the gaps are roughly the same as they were four decades ago. The poverty rate for blacks, for instance, continues to be about three times that of whites…”
Childhood Obesity – South Carolina
SC needs more action on obesity, August 26, 2013, Greenville Online: “South Carolina is moving backward in its fight against childhood obesity, at least according to one set of data that was recently released. The information suggests that more effort is needed to encourage healthier diets and more exercise for children — especially children in low-income families.In the four years from 2009 to 2012, the percentage of South Carolina children between 2 and 4 years old in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infant and Children who are obese increased to 15.6 percent from 13.3 percent. It was a higher increase than any of 40 states included in a study of WIC…”