Why child poverty in the US may be much worse than you realize, By Danielle Kurtzleben, October 30, 2014, Vox: “Nearly 44 percent of all US kids were in poverty for two or more months from 2009 to 2012, the Census Bureau reported on Wednesday. Poverty is unevenly spread, and for many college-educated, urban-dwelling, well-to-do Americans can be almost entirely hidden. It might be that none of the kids in your neighborhood or church or school district were in poverty during this period. But that means that there’s some other neighborhood where many — even most — of the kids were. And this is just the beginning of the staggering figures on US child poverty…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty