- More Tri-City kids living in poverty, new report shows, By Michelle Dupler of the Tri-City Herald, December 13, 2012, The Bellingham Herald: “New U.S. Census Bureau numbers show that more than one-third of Franklin County children lived in poverty in 2011 — and that’s up from about one-fourth in the previous year. The census bureau, as part of its Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates program, released a new set of poverty estimates Wednesday showing that 832 counties nationwide — or 26 percent — saw an increase in poverty from 2007-11 that couldn’t be explained away by the statistical margin of error…”
- In many Maine schools, one-fifth of students in poverty, By North Cairn, December 13, 2012, Morning Sentinel: “About one in five students in many schools in Maine are living in poverty, according to statistics released Wednesday by the U.S. Census Bureau. That figure holds true across the country, the report found. Last year — the period from which the report’s data was taken — there were 53.8 million school-age children in more than 13,500 school districts. Nearly half lived in communities with school district poverty rates greater than 20 percent…”
- Sarasota poverty rate drops, but it’s still high, By Zac Anderson, December 12, 2012, Herald Tribune: “After moving dramatically in the wrong direction for three straight years, two leading economic indicators — poverty and household income — began to level off across Florida in 2011 and even improved in Sarasota County, according to new U.S. census data. The data is further evidence that Florida’s economy hit bottom around 2010 and is slowly improving. But poverty is still at, or near, record highs across much of the state in a recovery that has been uneven…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty