Poverty and Ohio’s kids delineated in report, By Rita Price, September 8, 2014, Columbus Dispatch: “Kids in Delaware County live in the state’s wealthiest households, while those in heavily Amish Holmes County are least likely to be born underweight. Fourth-graders in northwestern Ohio’s rural Paulding County fare best on state reading tests, and children in Appalachian Jackson County suffer the highest poverty rates. The Children’s Defense Fund-Ohio releases its annual report on child well-being today, with overviews by region — metro, suburban, rural and Appalachian — and snapshots of all 88 Ohio counties…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty