City’s childhood poverty third worst in nation, By Mark Curnutte, November 3, 2011, Cincinnati Enquirer: “Patti Bellamo makes about $13,500 a year as a food service helper at Oyler School, her 14th year with Cincinnati Public Schools. Their three adult children, daughter-in-law and five grandchildren live with Bellamo and her disabled husband, Paul, a former contractor, in their house near the school. Her son Eric and his wife, Nicole, and their five children, ages 2-10, moved in a few months ago when Eric had trouble getting enough hours with a moving company to pay his Duke Energy bill. Those five Bellamo youngsters are among the estimated 48 percent of the children in Cincinnati who give it the third-highest rate of childhood poverty, behind Detroit and Cleveland. The poverty level for a family of four in 2010 was $20,050…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty