Pages tagged with poverty

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    News Article

    Child Poverty Rising, Report Says

    Washington Post, July 11, 2009

    A growing number of American children are living in poverty and with unemployed parents, and are facing the threat of hunger, according to a federal report. 18% of all children 17 and younger were living in poverty in 2007, up from 17% in 2006. The percentage of children with at least one parent working full time was 77% in 2007, down from 78% in 2006.  More

  • Magazine Article

    Brave New Welfare

    Mother Jones Foundation for National Progress, January 31, 2009

    Welfare is the only cash safety-net program for single moms and their kids, notes Rebecca Blank, an economist at the Brookings Institution and one of the nation's leading experts on poverty. "One has to worry, with a recession, about the number of women who, if they get unemployed, are not going to have anywhere to turn."   More