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Child Poverty in the United States

MONDAY, SEP 27, 2021

One of every 5 U.S. children lives in poverty, according to the 2015-19 American Community Survey. A Social Explorer analysis of Census data finds a majority of children are poor in 38 of the nation's counties — about 1 percent of the total but all located within predominantly Black, Hispanic or Native communities. 

Claiborne County, Miss., topped the list with 72.9 percent of its 1,925 children living in poverty, according to the survey. The southwest Mississippi county, which is mostly Black, was trailed by East Carroll Parish, La., also a majority Black community that had a 66.4 percent child poverty rate, and Mellette County, S.D., a majority Native community that reported 65.7 percent of its children in poverty. Use Social Explorer's cutting-edge mapping technology to explore the rates of child poverty in your county.

    

Child Poverty, 2019. Click here to explore further.


Author: Frank Bass

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