- More children living in poverty now than during recession, By Jennifer Calfas, July 21, 2015, USA Today: “A higher percentage of children live in poverty now than did during the Great Recession, according to anew report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation released Tuesday. About 22% of children in the U.S. lived below the poverty line in 2013, compared with 18% in 2008, the foundation’s 2015 Kids Count Data Book reported. In 2013, the U.S. Department of Human and Health Service’s official poverty line was $23,624 for a family with two adults and two children…”
- Kids Count: How does your state rank in child well-being?, By Cristina Maza, July 21, 2015, Christian Science Monitor: “For children in New England and the Midwest, life is pretty good. For those in the South and Southwest though, not so much. And overall, kids are not as well off as they were before the 2008 recession. That’s according to the latest Kids Count Data Book released Tuesday by child advocacy group the Annie E. Casey Foundation. The study found that 22 percent of American children were living in poverty in 2013 compared with 18 percent in 2008. Furthermore, poverty rates are nearly double among African-Americans and American Indians…”
- ‘Troubling’ report finds growing number of US children living in poverty, By Alan Yuhas, July 21, 2015, The Guardian: “A growing number of US children are living amid poverty and stark racial inequities in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, a new report has found, suggesting the economic recovery has not helped families return to their pre-recession security. Twenty-two percent of American children lived in poverty in 2013, according to the latest Kids Count Data Book, compared to 18% in 2008. The organization that compiled the report, child advocacy group the Annie E Casey Foundation, found it ‘especially troubling’ that children are increasingly likely to grow up in a high-poverty neighborhood…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty