More Children in Poverty Now Than During Recession

Revelation 6:5,6 NCV When the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, "Come!" I looked, and there before me was a black horse, and its rider held a pair of scales in his hand. Then I heard something that sounded like a voice coming from the middle of the four living creatures. The voice said, "A quart of wheat for a day's pay, and three quarts of barley for a day's pay, and do not damage the olive oil and wine!"

A new report shows that more than one in five American children were living in poverty in 2013, the last year that complete data is available.

The number of children in poverty, 22%, is higher than in September 2010 when the New York Times said the Great Recession had brought poverty rates in the U.S. to their highest level in 15 years and greater than the 18% child poverty rate recorded in 2008.

The report also says that almost one-third of American children in 2013 lived in a home where no parent held a steady, full-time job.

The report says with only a “few exceptions”,  “nearly all of the measures that [it] track[s], African-American, American Indian and Latino children continued to experience negative outcomes at rates that were higher than the national average. Overall unemployment rates have fallen, but the unemployment rate for African-Americans is currently 11 percent — 2.4 percentage points higher than where it was prior to the economic crisis. Nearly 40 percent of African-American children live in poverty, compared to 14 percent of white children.”

“The fact that it’s happening is disturbing on lots of levels,” said Laura Speer, the associate director for policy reform and advocacy at the Casey Foundation, told USA Today. “Those kids often don’t have the access to the things they need to thrive.” The foundation says its mission is to help low-income children in the U.S. by providing grants and advocating for policies that promote economic opportunity.”

Speer added their is hope for 2014 because the decline in the unemployment rate means more children in a home with at least one adult having stable employment.

5 thoughts on “More Children in Poverty Now Than During Recession

  1. From data I’ve read, if unemployment were guaged by the same rules and standards back in the 30s and 40s…our unemployment would stand at 23%-24% right now. There is a world-wide economic crash on the horizon and who knows what it will be then. It is possible that this event could usher in the anti-Christ.

  2. Too many outsourced jobs. Many of these families would be in better living conditions if we had not sent all of our manufacturing overseas. This poverty is a result of bad political deals.

  3. This is my audience saith the Lord, for the Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord. Luke 4:18-19.
    Everyone, grab a poor person and their children and bring them to church with you; bring them into your own houses and I will deliver them and you will receive the blessing of the LORD that maketh rich and he addeth no sorrow with it. Proverbs 10:22

  4. So many low paying jobs, and greed. People with college degree’s working poverty wages. God bless families with children. Children are a blessing from God. The picture shows human beings, do you see?

  5. So many uneducated and unskilled people with way to many children that knew way in advance that they could not provide for. Look at the picture and see what they look like.

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