State child poverty rate has jumped 21 percent since 2008, By Timm Herdt, January 7, 2013, Ventura County Star: “The percentage of California children living in poverty has soared by 21 percent since the start of the Great Recession in 2008, and more than 1 in 5 children live in households with incomes below the federal poverty threshold, a study released Monday shows. The rate is about 1 in 3 for black and Latino children and those being raised by a single mother…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty