Polk County child poverty rate rose in ’11, By Mary Stegmeir, December 12, 2013, Des Moines Register: “Polk County saw one of the largest shifts — up or down — in its childhood poverty rate from 2010 to 2011, according to an Iowa Kids Count report released today. In Iowa’s most populous county, 17.5 percent of youngsters now live below the poverty line, up from 14.5 percent in 2010. It is among seven counties in Iowa to record a poverty rate change of at least 3 percentage points…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty