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Thursday, August 27th, 2015

Almost One-Third Of Children Live In Poverty In ‘The Richest Nation In The World’

Author:     Kit O'Connell
Source:     Mint Press News
Publication Date:     August 25, 2015
 Link: Almost One-Third Of Children Live In Poverty In ‘The Richest Nation In The World’
Stephan:   One in five minor children in the U.S. live in poverty. When just Black and Hispanic children are considered that number rises to one in three. That is 3 million more children in poverty than was the case in 2008.
A women sits with her son for dinner in their new sparsely furnished apartment, Thursday, Aug. 13, 2015, in New York. After leaving her husband who beat her for years, she and her little boy spent the next three years homeless because she couldn’t afford New York City rents. About one third of American children are now living in poverty. Credit: AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews

A women sits with her son for dinner in their new sparsely furnished apartment, Thursday, Aug. 13, 2015, in New York. After leaving her husband who beat her for years, she and her little boy spent the next three years homeless because she couldn’t afford New York City rents. About one third of American children are now living in poverty.
Credit: AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews

AUSTIN, TEXAS — The financial collapse of 2008 and the absence of true economic recovery in the years since has left millions more children in poverty than before the recession. About 22 percent of American children live in poverty, and even that figure may […]

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1 Comment

  1. Rev. Dean on Thursday, August 27, 2015 at 5:21 pm

    This is disgraceful in a country which wastes more on unneeded and unaccounted for military spending a one-hundredth of which could wipe out the poverty discussed in this article.