- Report: 3 in 5 Detroit kids live in poverty, but teen births drop, By Robin Erb, January 24, 2013, Detroit Free Press: “Detroit has fewer children these days — a result of families moving to the suburbs and a drop in birth rates. Those who are left are living in poverty in greater numbers — about 3 in 5 of Detroit’s children. That number is one among a large set of data — some new, some old — from a variety of sources that has been collected in a single report, ‘State of the Detroit Child’ by Data Driven Detroit (D3). And while the data paint a grim picture of the challenges faced by Detroit’s children, it also brings into better focus the solutions, enabling funders and policy-makers to work more strategically, said Tonya Allen, chief operating officer and incoming president of the Skillman Foundation, which funded the project…”
- Study: 60 percent of Detroit kids live in poverty, By Serena Maria Daniels, January 25, 2013, Detroit News: “Close to six in 10 children in Detroit live in poverty, a 65 percent increase in just over a decade, findings released by Data Driven Detroit found. An exodus of families with children that led to the city’s 25 percent population loss between 2000 and 2010 resulted in Detroit’s most vulnerable being left behind, the 2012 State of Detroit’s Child report published this week said. The study, in its second year, was designed to shed light on issues affecting Detroit children to help government leaders steer policy…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty