Intergenerational Poverty – Utah

Modest gains highlight Utah program to break intergenerational poverty, By Christopher Smart, October 1, 2015, Salt Lake Tribune: “Children are the key to breaking the chain of poverty that keeps families in economic distress for one generation after another. Youngsters who are afforded safe environments, good nutrition and early education in preschool and kindergarten are better equipped to learn as they enter elementary school and more likely to graduate high school and pursue advanced training. That is at the crux of what the Utah Intergenerational Welfare Reform Commission set out to do four years ago: find solutions to the plague of poverty handed down from parent to child and so on over decades…”