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hschulein

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Fri Jul 24, 2015, 07:48 AM Jul 2015

Mike Malloy - Three Million More US Children In Poverty



Around 3 million more children in the U.S. are living in poverty than at the beginning of the Great Recession — a worrying statistic that mutes much of the fanfare of the nation's economic turnaround, according to a report released Tuesday on child welfare.

Twenty-two percent of U.S. children were living in poverty in 2013 compared with 18 percent in 2008, according to the Kids Count Data Book, an annual report that ranks states by the well-being of their children. It equates to an increase of 2.9 million children, according to census data from those years.

Poverty rates have nearly doubled among African-Americans and American Indians since 2008, and hardship is most severe in the South and Southwest, the report found.

Full story: http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/7/21/report-suggest-us-children-left-behind-in-economic-recovery.html

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