Report Details Recession’s Impact on U.S. Kids
A new report published by the Brookings Institute discusses the economic toll of the recession on kids in California and throughout the United States. The data evaluated in the report, The Recession’s Ongoing Impact on America’s Children, is gathered by measuring three state-by-state indicators: children with an unemployed parent, individuals receiving nutrition assistance benefits, and child poverty.
According to the report, an estimated 6.5 million U.S. children under the age of 18 live in families where a parent was unemployed during at least one month of 2011, and more than 1 million of these children live in California.
Additionally, 8 million more children received supplemental nutritional assistance in 2011 than four years prior, indicating that children’s overall economic well-being has declined from 2010 to 2011.
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