Sentences with phrase «u.s. child poverty rate»

Official Poverty Measure Fails to Provide an Accurate Assessment of Anti-Poverty Programs The Supplemental Poverty Measure Shows U.S. Child Poverty Rate Cut Nearly in Half by Safety Net Programs and Tax Policies MONTPELIER — The independent child advocacy organization Voices for Vermont's Children is highlighting the release of the new KIDS COUNT ® Data Snapshot, Measuring Access to Opportunity... Continue Reading

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By the time W finished his second term, I had graduated from college, come to terms with the fact that the criminalization of abortion is highly unlikely no matter the party in power, expanded my definition of «pro-life» to include Iraqi children and prisoners of war, and experienced first - hand some of the major problems with America's healthcare system, which along with poverty and education issues, contributes to the troubling abortion rate in the U.S. I remained pro-life idealistically, but for the first time, voted for a pro-choice president, hoping that the reforms I wanted to see in the healthcare, the economy, immigration, education, and for the socioeconomically disadvantaged would function pragmatically to reduce abortions.

One in five U.S. children are now born into poverty and the infant - mortality rate in parts of Detroit is higher than in Honduras, but the structural causes of poverty go unreported and remain invisible.

Another huge difference is that the U.S. has the highest child poverty rate in the industrialized world, while Finland's is very low.

Decreases in poverty have been greatest among black children... the poverty rate for black children is now at the lowest point in U.S. history...

They assert that the U.S. has a sky - high child - poverty rate compared to other developed countries.

The official poverty rate in 2013 among all U.S. families with children was 40 % if the family was headed by an unmarried mother as compared to 8 % if the family was headed by a married couple.

Petrilli and Wright present data from a new article in Education Next that show that when cross-national poverty rates are calculated properly, the U.S. does not have a higher child - poverty rate than many other large, industrialized nations.

Krissy Clark of Marketplace visits Dayton, Ohio, which has one of the worst rates of economic mobility in the U.S., to try to understand why so few poor children in Dayton make it out of poverty and to tell the stories of some who have made it out.

The article states that «one in four rural children live in poverty, and of the 50 U.S. counties with the highest child - poverty rates, 48 are rural.»

According to Dr. Borne's research on child poverty rates, «According to the 2010 U.S. guidelines, the poverty line is $ 22,050 for a four - person family.

The official poverty rate for the U.S. population is high, at 13.5 percent, and the rate among children is higher still, at 19.7 percent.

Child poverty rates in the U.S. are on the rise, but health and education trends are showing improvements — including teen pregnancy reaching a historic low, according to the annual KIDS COUNT Data Book by the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

Rhode Island's child poverty rates rose from 15.5 % in 2008 to 21.5 % in 2013, while the U.S. rates increased from 18.2 % to 22.2 % during that same time period.

With 20.1 % of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 58.3 % of U.S. neighborhoods.