- Kids, poverty data released Thursday at Salt Lake City summit, By Cathy Mckitrick, April 25, 2013, Salt Lake Tribune: “According to the KIDS COUNT annual data release, 377,396 Utahns lived below the federal poverty level in 2011 and 140,772 were youth under the age of 18. The nonprofit organization Voices for Utah Children released 25 indicators of child well-being Thursday in conjunction with Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker’s Carpe Datum Summit highlighting new neighborhood details provided by the University of Utah…”
- Utah’s child poverty rate rising, 2013 KIDS COUNT report says, By Marjorie Cortez, April 26, 2013, Deseret News: “Child poverty is on the rise in Utah, a trend child advocates say drives down many other measures of child well-being. According to the latest KIDS COUNT report, nearly 378,000 Utahns lived below the federal poverty level in 2011, with more than 140,000 of them children under age 18…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty