US: 25 states have high child poverty rates

Before the recession, high child poverty rates generally were clustered in 14 southern and southwestern states. Now, you’ll find one in five children living in poverty in half the country, even in places like California, Florida and Oregon, a new reportsays. Twenty-five states had child poverty rates of 20 percent or higher in 2010, according to an analysis of Census Bureau data by the Brookings Institution. 

And if Brookings’ predictions are correct, Idaho and Rhode Island will join the ranks of states with high child poverty in 2011, bringing to 27 the number of states with rates of 20 percent or higher. That’s a near doubling of the number of states that experienced high child poverty before the recession .... Read more at http://www.stateline.org