Kids Count Rankings Do Not Show 23% Of Us Children Living In Poverty

Tim Worstall, Contributor, Forbes
Tue, 07/22/2014 - 3:50am

The annual Kids Count, from the Annie F. Casey Foundation, is out and many are reporting that it shows that 23% of American children are living in poverty. I'm afraid that this isn't quite true and the mistaken assumption depends on one little intricate detail of how US poverty statistics [...]

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