Family Well-Being, Education Decline for U.S. Kids Despite Recovery From Great Recession
“More American families are living in high-poverty neighborhoods, particularly in the South and Southwest, the report found. Between 2011 and 2015, 14 percent of children across the country lived in communities where poverty rates were at or above 30 percent. ‘The U.S. continues to have one of the highest child poverty rates among all developed countries,’ Laura Speer, the foundation’s associate director of policy reform and advocacy, said in a statement. ‘This unfairly burdens our young people and the nation, costing an estimated $500 billion a year in reduced economic opportunities and increased health and criminal justice–related costs.’”