Sentences with phrase «child poverty rates rose»

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.

Warren County's child poverty rate rose from 8 percent in 2010 to 11 percent in 2011, pushing the county from seventh to 10th in the Kids Count rankings for this important measure of child well - being.

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Highest child poverty rate — B.C. has had the highest rate of child poverty for eight years in a row and the numbers are rising.

During that decade purchases of goods and services for children by government rose very rapidly, as did real household income per child, and the poverty rate of children plummeted.

UNICEF has also reported that the UK child poverty rate had risen to more than one in four children.

Our high child poverty rates cost us a fortune - # 25 billion a year according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation - and child poverty is now predicted to rise by one million by 2020.

But if you look at the breakdown of the family, of the fathers walking away from their wives, fathers walking away from their children, you take that right back to what's wrong with our society, why poverty rates rise.

«Percentage of US children who have chronic health conditions on the rise: Diseases such as asthma and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder have increased at a disproportionate rate among children living in poverty, according to new research being presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies 2016 Meeting.»

For children who have lived more than half of their childhood in poverty, this rate rises to 32 % (Hernandez, 2011).

In Sub Sahara regions they have the highest rate of Infant mortality and by 2020 the number of malnourished children will increase under all scenarios, rising as high as 55 million, as hardship and poverty increases.

Similarly, while Alabama often scores well below the national average on the overall Kids Count rankings and has a higher rate of overall poverty, its rankings rise when examined by different races and ethnicities — and the disparities (differences in overall scores for white non-Hispanic children and African - American non-Hispanic children or Hispanic children) are much smaller than many northern states.

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.