USA Today - A higher percentage of children live in poverty now than did during the Great Recession, according to a new report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation released Tuesday.
About 22% of children in the U.S. lived below the poverty line in 2013, compared with 18% in 2008, the foundation's 2015 Kids Count Data Book reported. In 2013, the U.S. Department of Human and Health Service's official poverty line was $23,624 for a family with two adults and two children.
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The only measure that tells us a recession is over is economic growth, but 99% of the growth in income is going to 1& of the population. The other 99% of us are getting poorer, and if we look at the 90% we are getting quite a bit poorer. And this will only get worse as econmic growth becomes a thing of the past in every plcae except those raping the planet for oil and gas.
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