County school-age child poverty rates are still above their pre-recession levels in metropolitan areas of California, Nevada, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas, as well as the coastal areas of the Northeast and Great Lakes states, Wesley Basel of the Census Bureau’s Small Area Estimates Branch, said in a Wednesday release. The poverty rate nationally for school-age children is 20.8 percent, or roughly 1 in 5.
Posted on: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 01:40:34 +0000
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