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KIDSCOUNT Data Snapshot on Children Living in High-Poverty Communities
This Data Snapshot highlights newly available national, state, and city data in the KIDS COUNT Data Center that shows a 25 percent increase in the number of children residing in areas of concentrated poverty since 2000. The snapshot indicates how…
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Vermont Experiences Significant Increase in Child Poverty
Published September 27, 2011Children Hit Hard by the Great Recession
New Census data from the 2010 American Community Survey (ACS) show that the impacts of the recession are taking their toll on Vermont’s children and their families. In 2010, 17 percent of Vermont’s children were living in poverty. Prior to 2010, and throughout most of the recession, Vermont’s child poverty rate hovered at 13 percent. But in a single year – between 2009 and 2010 – our child poverty rate increased by 31 percent. 2010 Voices ACS Poverty press release