Child poverty increased in 35 of the biggest U.S. cities in the past eight years, and millions of children now live in families barely scraping by, a new analysis shows.
Among the 50 biggest cities, Detroit; Cleveland; Fresno, Calif.; Memphis, Tenn., and Miami had the highest rates of children living in poverty in 2013, according to an analysis by the Baltimore-based Annie E. Casey Foundation and the Washington-based Population Reference Bureau. The analysis tracked childhood poverty from 2005 through 2013.
“These numbers underscore that millions of children are living in families who are barely getting by economically, which can affect their well-being and their ability to succeed as adults,” said Laura Speer, associate director of policy reform and data at the Casey Foundation, in a statement.
“Now more than ever, the future prosperity of the United States depends on our ability to foster the health and well-being of the next generation.”
[For more of this story, written by Gary Gately, go to http://jjie.org/child-poverty-...t-u-s-cities/107715/]
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