Intergenerational Poverty – Utah

One-third of Utah kids risk becoming impoverished adults, new report says, By Marjorie Cortez, September 30, 2014, Deseret News: “Utah’s effort to end intergenerational poverty will start with 80 families. Next Generation Kids, a pilot program led by the Utah Department of Workforce Services, is underway in Ogden. State officials also plan to work with children and their families in Kearns and Salt Lake City’s Glendale neighborhood. That’s the result of more than three years of intensive study about intergenerational poverty in Utah that reveals one-third of children in the state are at risk of becoming impoverished adults…”