Nearly one in five children in the United States lived in poverty last year, with a much higher proportion of poverty among African-American and Hispanic children, new U.S. Census figures released Tuesday show.
Overall, the number of children living in poverty declined slightly from 21.8 percent of all children, or 16.07 million, in 2012 to 19.9 percent, or 14.66 million, in 2013, the new figures show.
Nearly 37 percent of African-American children and just over 30 percent of Hispanic children lived in poverty in 2013, determined by the income of their household.
“We have what we’re calling Depression-level rates of poverty for those groups, and we can’t forget about that,” said Deborah Weinstein, executive director of the Washington-based Coalition on Human Needs.
[For more of this story, written by Gary Gately, go to http://jjie.org/census-nearly-...s-in-poverty/107625/]
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