Report: Intervention needed to break cycle of intergenerational poverty in Utah, By Marjorie Cortez, October 4, 2013, Deseret News: “Utahns considered to be intergenerational welfare recipients receive on average nearly 12 years of public assistance, a figure that will likely increase unless something alters the course, according to a new state report. ‘It is reasonable to expect that without intervention, the average will increase as time passes,’ according to Utah’s second-annual Intergenerational Poverty, Welfare Dependency and the Use of Public Assistance report, which was released Thursday…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty