Child Poverty – New Orleans, LA

39% of New Orleans children live in poverty, well above national average, report says, By Rebecca Catalanello, February 26, 2015, New Orleans Times-Picayune: “Poverty is depriving New Orleans children of healthy brain development and increasing the likelihood that their lives will be steeped in trauma and lifelong learning difficulties.  That’s according to new research from The Data Center, a New Orleans-based research organization that compiles and analyzes data for the purposes of informing public policy discussion.  Thirty-nine percent of New Orleans children live in poverty. That is more than 17 percentage points higher than the national average — and the ninth highest child poverty rate among 39 cities with populations between 275,000 and 600,000, according to the report…”