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Thinking about Poverty What percentage of the population is poor? What percentage of children are poor? What are poor children’s lives like?
Terminology Poverty: Income below the federal poverty
level (FPL) $$22,050 per year for a family of four
Low-income: Income below 200 percent of the 2005 federal poverty level (FPL) $44,100 per year for a family of four
Source: http://www.childstats.gov/americaschildren/eco1.asp
Child Poverty How many children live in poverty? Children represent a disproportionate share of the
poor in the United States 25 percent of the total population, are children in the
U.S. but 35 percent of the poor population are children In 2011, 21 percent, were poor.
Child Poverty Rates in the U.S. from 2006-2010
Source: Kids Count retrieved from http://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/acrossstates/NationalProfile.aspx?cat=16&group=Category&loc=1&dt=1%2c3%2c2%2c4
http://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/tables/43-children-in-poverty?loc=1&loct=2#ranking/6/any/true/38/any/322http://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/acrossstates/NationalProfile.aspx?cat=16&group=Category&loc=1&dt=1%2c3%2c2%2c4
http://www.npc.umich.edu/poverty/
Sources for Statistics on Child Poverty
Child Poverty varies by race and ethnicity The poverty rate for children also varies substantially by race
and Hispanic origin, as shown in the table below Children Under 18 Living in Poverty, 2011 All children under 18: 23% White only, non-Hispanic: 12.5% Black: 37.4 % Hispanic: 34.1 %
SOURCE: http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/12/povertyandincomeest/ib.shtml
Child Poverty Rate by Family Structure
Source: http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/12/povertyandincomeest/ib.shtml
Child Poverty, Race/Ethnicity & Family Structure
Latino/a and African American children are disproportionately low income.
Nearly one-half of children living in female-headed families live below poverty
Effects of Poverty on Children Health
Mortality Low birth weight Health problems Abuse
Educational Outcomes High drop out rate Underfunded schools
Kidscount website What are poverty rates for Children in New
Jersey? http://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/bystate/
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There Are No Children Here The Henry Horner Homes were not always bad In the 1960s there were groups like girl scouts
who met regularly And the crime rate was lower But during the 1970s and 1980s drug and gang
activity increased
There Are No Children Here The local Chicago government officials and the Chicago
Housing Authority never wanted the Henry Horner Homes to be built in the first place
The buildings were not well funded and were not well built
So they never put much money into them, even from the beginning
Later, in the 1980s, findings of a housing authority tour of facilities revealed terrible conditions…rats, filthy, flooded basements
Chicago’s public housing has a history of neglect
There Are No Children Here In Philadelphia, and Newark -- high-rise
public housing is being replaced by: two-story, low density townhouses Section 8 vouchers
Strategies to increase home ownership: targeted at low to moderate income who
can afford to pay a mortgage, but cannot get together enough $$ for a down payment & closing costs