Syracuse Has Nation’s Worst Child Poverty Rate
“Syracuse has the nation’s worst child poverty among larger U.S. cities, according to new census estimates released Thursday.
The city had a child poverty rate of 45.6% in estimates covering the five-year period from 2019 to 2023. That’s down 0.7 percentage points from the previous five-year period.
But it still had the worst rate in the nation among more than 340 U.S. places with populations of at least 100,000 people and that had poverty data available from the Census Bureau.”
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