- Child poverty skyrockets in Colorado, By Allison Sherry, April 13, 2010, Denver Post: “Colorado has the fastest-growing child-poverty rate in the nation – a distinction attributed to a burgeoning number of poor in Denver’s suburbs and a widening gap between Latino and non-Latino income. While the state ranked 22nd nationally, Colorado’s child-poverty rate has climbed 72 percent since 2000, according to KIDS COUNT in Colorado, an annual report by the Colorado Children’s Campaign. Much of that increase is among the state’s growing Latino population, according to the data. The state’s non-Latinos are actually higher income than the national average, but Latinos in Colorado are among the poorest in the nation. In other words, Colorado’s large income gap between Latinos and non-Latinos is creating what advocates say is a ‘tale of two Colorados…'”
- Report: Colorado has fastest-growing child poverty rate in U.S., By Barbara Cotter, April 13, 2010, Colorado Springs Gazette: “The number of children living in poverty has been growing faster in Colorado than anywhere else in the nation, and the gap between the haves and have-nots is widening, according to a report released today by the nonprofit Colorado Children’s Campaign. The report, 2010 Kids Count in Colorado, says the number of children living at or below the federal poverty level of about $22,000 for a family of four rose 72 percent between 2000 and 2008. Paradoxically, Colorado ranked in the middle of the pack — No. 22 — in overall child well-being, which takes health, education and other social and economic factors into consideration. The reason, the report says, is the growing disparity between children who are doing well and those who aren’t…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty