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Record number of N.J. residents living in poverty, study finds

assetContent (15)More New Jersey residents are in poverty now than in the past five decades and the outlook for the future is bleak in a state that boasts being one of the wealthiest in the nation, according to a report released Sunday. The findings in the study done for Legal Services of New Jersey paint a grim… Read the rest of this entry »

Posted: November 15th, 2015 | Author: | Filed under: Economy, New Jersey | Tags: , , | 2 Comments »

One-Third Of U.S. Children Live In Poverty

In a new paper released by the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP), a research center at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, researchers find that many children living in large cities in the U.S. are living in poverty. Nearly 3 in 5 children in Detroit are poor, and this rate has grown by… Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: December 7th, 2014 | Author: | Filed under: Economy | Tags: , , , | 3 Comments »