{"id":2132,"date":"2011-09-22T16:36:27","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T20:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/?p=2132"},"modified":"2011-09-23T10:06:24","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T14:06:24","slug":"more-kids-living-in-poverty-nationwide-but-not-in-new-hampshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2011\/09\/22\/more-kids-living-in-poverty-nationwide-but-not-in-new-hampshire\/","title":{"rendered":"More Kids Living In Poverty Nationwide, But Not In New Hampshire"},"content":{"rendered":"

The US Census Bureau<\/a> released data today showing\u00a0more kids living in poverty nationwide, but New Hampshire is among a small number of states that did NOT see an increase.<\/p>\n

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Nationwide Census numbers show 22 percent of American children are now living in poverty<\/p><\/div>\n

The Carsey Institute<\/a> at the University of New Hampshire found that since 2009, a million more kids are living in poverty<\/a>.\u00a0 But if you look at that number proportionately, the poverty level for New Hampshire\u2019s kids has remained steady at 10 percent.\u00a0 That\u2019s well below the national average of 22 percent.<\/p>\n

\u201cNew Hampshire is typically rated one of the top places for children,\u201d says Beth Mattingly, Director of Research on Vulnerable Families at the Carsey Institute. \u201cWhat New Hampshire has going for it is a high standard of living, higher household incomes and generally a highly educated population.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mattingly\u2019s analysis of the new Census numbers found that the highest rates of child poverty\u00a0are in the state\u2019s central urban areas, at 16 percent. The rates are lowest in the suburbs, where they’re around six percent.<\/p>\n

Along with New Hampshire, several other states saw their child poverty rates remain the same.\u00a0 Overall, New England made a good showing, with Rhode Island and Maine holding steady.\u00a0 Wyoming, South Dakota, Colorado, Arkansas, West Virginia, and Delaware were among the other states that didn\u2019t see a rise.<\/p>\n

New England tends to have lower poverty rates overall.\u00a0 But Mattingly points out that while some states did not\u00a0show an increase, they still have high rates of children living in poverty,<\/p>\n

\u201cMaine is a very different state than New Hampshire, and even though it didn\u2019t see an increase, its child poverty rate is already high at 18 percent.\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

The Carsey Institute plans to look at the new Census numbers to find out who lacks health insurance in New Hampshire and in the rest of the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The US Census Bureau released data today showing\u00a0more kids living in poverty nationwide, but New Hampshire is among a small number of states that did NOT see an increase. The Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire found that since 2009, a million more kids are living in poverty.\u00a0 But if you look at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[538,175,176,525,117],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2132"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2140,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132\/revisions\/2140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}