Before the recession, high child poverty rates generally were clustered in 14 southern and southwestern states. Now, you’ll find one in five children living in poverty in half the country, even in places like California, Florida and Oregon, a new report says. Twenty-five states had child poverty rates of 20 percent or higher in 2010, according to an analysis of Census Bureau data by the Brookings Institution.
And if Brookings’ predictions are correct, Idaho and Rhode Island will join the ranks of states with high child poverty in 2011, bringing to 27 the number of states with rates of 20 percent or higher. That’s a near doubling of the number of states that experienced high child poverty before the recession.
“The economy may have begun its slow recovery, but conditions are not yet improving for children in the most vulnerable families,” Brookings’ Julia B. Isaacs, a child and family policy fellow, writes in her report.
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Thanks to Democrat policies.
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Take heart in the fact that Congress is NOT suffering (it's good to be king). KKids, starve and go to school without coats, while Senators and Representatives use their influence and insider info to getter richer by the day. But if you asked them to donate to a Childrens Hospital, the Capitol Police would have you thrown into the street. Maybe they MIGHT give you a good stock tip....
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