32% of US Children Are Poor
US Census Bureau announced Friday that the number of poor children in America has surged by one million in 2010, reflecting the country's worst economic woes since the Great Depression.
In 2010, the Census survey indicated that over 32 percent of children across the country were living in poverty, compared to nearly 31 percent in 2009, bringing the number of poverty-stricken US children to 15.7 million from the previously recorded 14.7 million.
The number reveals that nearly one in every three youngest Americans is now living in poverty.
More than 20 percent of those up to 17 years old lived at or below the poverty level in 24 states as well as the US capital of Washington DC.
The census data also found that the number and percentage of children living in poverty climbed in 27 states in 2010, with New Mexico showing the highest growth of 4.7 percent.
In 10 states, including Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia, child poverty rates stand at 25 percent or higher.
The number of people living in poverty has reached an all-time high in the United States, despite the country's position as one of the wealthiest nations in the world.
The US recession began in 2007. More than a year after the recession officially ended in 2009, the US unemployment rate remains at over nine percent, as the nationwide poverty rate climbed to 15.3 percent in 2010 from 14.3 percent in 2009.
Source:ABNA, Edited by moqawama.org
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