Nearly 15 million children, or 20 percent of America's juvenile population, were living in poverty in 2009, according to a child welfare study released Wednesday.MORE TAX CUTS.
More than double that number were in households where no parent had a full-time year-round job, according to the report by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, which noted that the child poverty rate grew about 18 percent over the past decade.
"This is really troubling because we had made so much progress in the 1990s in reducing the percentage of children in poverty," said Patrick McCarthy, the foundation's president and CEO. "Essentially the recession has put us back to where we were in the early 1990s."
...The recession has been especially hard on minorities, the study found. Black children were twice as likely as white children to have an unemployed parent.
The study found that poverty rose in 38 out of 50 U.S. states and that Nevada had the highest rate of children whose parents were unemployed and underemployed. The state is also home to the most children affected by foreclosures; 13 percent of all Nevada babies, toddlers and teenagers have been kicked out of their homes because of an unpaid mortgage, the study found.
*seethe*
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