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Date Posted: 12:53:18 05/25/02 Sat
Author: Drummond
Subject: 10 million children in poverty

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http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002/05/23/children-poverty.htm
WASHINGTON (AP) � The number of children living on the threshold of poverty in working families surpassed 10 million in 2000 after increasing throughout the 1990s.

The decade saw an overall improvement in the lives of American children, according to the annual Kids Count report. Released Thursday, the report compares states with one another and with the nation as a whole in 10 categories including death rates, poverty and education.

The improved economy and changes to welfare laws that moved more people into jobs contributed to the increase in the number of children in low-income working families, said William O'Hare, coordinator of the project for the Annie E. Casey Foundation, a private research and grant-making group that focuses on children.

But with those families earning incomes near the poverty level � less than about $26,000 for a family of four � the news was not all good.

"We've got people no longer dependent on the government, but certainly not out of poverty," O'Hare said. "We haven't moved a lot of those people into jobs they can support a family with."

In 1990, 7.6 million kids � representing 12.2% of all American children at the time �lived in low-income families with at least one parent working most of the year, O'Hare said.

Ten years later, the number of children living in these families had increased to more than 10.2 million, or 14.7% of young Americans.

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