Colorado’s child poverty rate almost doubles in 10 years, By Jordan Steffen, March 19, 2013, Denver Post: “Colorado has the second fastest growing rate of child poverty in the nation, according a Kids Count Colorado, an annual report from Colorado Children’s Campaign. The report, part of the Anne E. Casey Foundation’s national Kids County project, found that the rate of children living in poverty almost doubled between 2000 and 2011, to 18 percent from 10 percent, a trend experts say could get worse as the state slowly recovers from recent economic recessions. Only Nevada’s child-poverty rate increased more quickly…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty