Report: 25% More U.S. Children Now Living in Poor Areas

Democracy Now! | Headlines for February 24, 2012

Disproportionate earnings and widening class division - not sustainable. Bad news.

"New figures show the number of U.S. children living in poor neighborhoods has increased 25 percent since the turn of the century. The Annie E. Casey Foundation reports eight million children lived in poor communities in 2010, a 1.6 million increase from 2000. In a reflection of the stagnating wages for most American workers, three-quarters of those children had at least one parent working a job."