- Report says high child poverty rate is obstacle, By Shay Maunz, February 19, 2013, Charleston Daily Mail: “Without its persistently high rate of child poverty, West Virginia could reduce other nagging societal problems like the rates of divorce, obesity, addiction and teen pregnancy. That’s the premise of a new report from the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy and the West Virginia Healthy Kids and Families Coalition. That report, released Tuesday, details the state’s ‘growing and persistent’ problem with child poverty — an issue that has plagued West Virginia for generations…”
- Child poverty in W.Va. a persistent problem, report says, By Lori Kersey, February 19, 2013, Charleston Gazette: “While West Virginia has reduced the number of seniors living in poverty, child poverty is a growing problem, according to a report released by two organizations Tuesday. The state’s senior poverty rate fell from 39.2 percent in 1969 to just more than 10 percent today, the report stated. It was released by the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy and the West Virginia Healthy Kids and Families Coalition…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty