US child poverty rates rose in the 2000s

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

August 17, 2011 12:33 AM
US child poverty rates rose in the 2000s

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Across the nation, the research by the Annie E. Casey Foundation found that child poverty increased in 38 states from 2000 to 2009. As a result, 14.7 million children, 20 percent, were poor in 2009. That represents a 2.5 million increase from 2000, when 17 percent of the nation's youth lived in low-income homes.

In the foundation's first examination of the impact of the recession on the nation's children, the researchers concluded that low-income children will likely suffer academically, economically and socially long after their parents have recovered.

"People who grew up in a financially secure situation find it easier to succeed in life, they are more likely to graduate from high school, more likely to graduate from college and these are things that will led to greater success in life," said Stephen Brown, director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. "What we are looking at is a cohort of kids who as they become adults may be less able to contribute to the growth of the economy. It could go on for multiple generations."

The annual survey monitored by policy makers across the nation concludes that children from low-income families are more likely to be raised in unstable environments and change schools than their wealthier peers. As a result, they are less likely to be gainfully employed as adults.



Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/08/16/national/main20093300.shtml

[NYC_SKP]

1. You mean duing the same 2000s that Bush was president and the weathy got tax breaks?

Color me shocked!

K/R

:P

[La Lioness Priyanka]

9. are not the wealthy STILL getting tax breaks?

[NYC_SKP]

11. Indeed they are and it needs to END!

x(

[Hydrated]

2. Same over here

Used to rule the world, now this. Sad.

[surrealAmerican]

5. Welcome to DU.

It's always interesting to get an outside perspective.

[Hydrated]

7. Thank you, sA

Your political system is most unique!

[harun]

3. GOP, Mission Accomplished!

[Kumbricia]

4. trickle down economics at work

thanks Republicans!

[xchrom]

6. recommend

[OhioChick]

8. Shameful n/t

[La Lioness Priyanka]

10. socialized sacrifice. privatized profits. nt