Poor rural children: The forgotten fifth, July 22, 2009, Daily Yonder: “Federal anti-poverty efforts began in rural America. But discussions of poverty in the U.S. now largely exclude rural communities — even though a fifth of all poor children are rural. Nobody has studied child poverty in rural America more than Bill O’Hare. He has now written a new report, The Forgotten Fifth: Child Poverty in Rural America, for the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty