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The Continuing Problem of Child Poverty in the South | Juvenile ... : If you are a child in the United States living in poverty you probably live in the South. According to U.S. census data from 2009 (the last year data are available) the 10 states with the highest rates of child poverty were all in the South. ... العالم العربي (AR) | ASIA | AFRICA | English | Las Américas

Child Poverty in the United States - The U.S. relative child poverty rate is the worst of the G7 economies, at 20.2%, according to the OECD. 2. This rate is calculated as the share of a country's population under the age of 18 that lives on incomes that are less than half of the nation's “median post-transfer income” (i.e. including welfare ...

Children Living in Poverty in the United States Higher Than Recession  - A child that grows up in poverty has less opportunities than one who does not. The group reports that, "Nearly 15 million children in America lived ...

Child Poverty on the Rise in Riverhead : "By Joseph Pinciaro | Email the author | 6:40pm Recent data released by the United States Census Bureau shows an increase in child poverty in recent years in ...

Edelman emphasizes need to end child poverty : Edelman believes that people should be more worried about the fact that children in the United States, one of the wealthiest nations in the world, are living in extreme poverty without receiving education or health care, rather than worrying that ...

One American City Rivals the Poor Youth of New Delhi, India for Some of the Worst-Off Teens in ...  - A recent “WAVE” study highlights the problem of child poverty in the United States and around the globe, with findings that are shocking.

Children living in poverty increases, but overall child well-being moves up : "ACNJ compares counties on 15 measures for its annual Kids Count rankings, including child poverty , health, safety and education. Kids Count is a national and state‐by‐state statistical effort to track the state of children in the United States. ... العالم العربي (AR) | ASIA AFRICA | English | Las Américas

Poverty , alcohol, leading causes of child abuse in Nigeria says Expert - The academic don who stated that relevant literature has demonstrated that the prevalence of all dimensions of child abuse syndrome has reach worrisome height worldwide, said in the United States of America , the National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse declared that in 1996, over three million ...

As Poverty Rise, Wrong Time to Cut : By Desmond Brown, -- US Census Bureau report on poverty in the United States shows record numbers of Americans fell into poverty, more families lost access to health care, and child poverty increased dramatically between ... العالم العربي (AR) | ASIA | AFRICA | English | Las Américas

What Is The American Family Act Of 2017? It's Grabbing Potential 2020 Candidates' Attention - Child poverty is a very real problem in the United States. The National Center for Children in Poverty reports that 21 percent of all American kids live in ...

Poverty and family structure: new data Child Trends, a Washington nonprofit, has published an analysis of child and parent poverty in the United States based on 2010 census data released recently. Although the recession and factors such as the age of parents or their children have a bearing ...

US must invest in education to break cycle of poverty The situation is most difficult in large families (say, six or seven children ), because parents invest little in the health , nutrition and education of each child . Yet rich countries also fail. The United States , for example, cruelly allows its poorest ...

Collective violence and poverty on the Mexican-US border affects child mental ... In the study, " Children's Mental Health and Collective Violence: A Bi-National Study on the United States /Mexican Border," researchers compared psychosocial and behavior scores among children and adolescents living in El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juarez, ...

From a life of poverty, to great hope in R.I., to deportation ... : "The extreme poverty that Lastor-Canil experienced as a child explains why he was willing to risk his life and spend more than $10000 to slip into the United States and pursue a better life. He was born in 1976 in Chinque, a town of ...

Defending the Social Safety Net : More than 46 million people -- and 16 million children -- are poor in the United States . The poverty rate among American children is 22 percent, the highest since 1993, and among the ... States contribute important funding to Medicaid, state Child ... America | Las Américas | Português | Español | Stigmabase | eGAYlity

Children make up 22% of the United States population and 31% of those living in poverty. Racial inequities are deep and persistent: 71% of America's ... View article...