Child advocates and economists celebrated a milestone in 2013 when the national child poverty rate fell for the first time since the start of the Great Recession.
This trend was expected to continue along with the country’s job growth, increased consumer spending and drop in unemployment. However, new data from the 2014 American Community Survey (ACS) is officially cutting the celebrations short. The survey results, released Sept. 17, 2015, suggests that the national child poverty rate remained stagnant from 2013 to 2014 – a sign that the country’s economic recovery is still leaving the lowest-income families behind.
According to the ACS data, 1 in 5 kids still live in poverty. This reality is especially true for children of color. In 2014, black (38%), American Indian (36%) and Latino (32%) children were more likely to live in poverty relative to their white and Asian counterparts (both 13%).
[For more of this story go to http://www.aecf.org/blog/child...ases-in-nine-states/]
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