The recession’s effect on children: More kids face homelessness, poverty

By Liz Goodwin National Affairs Reporter

The worst recession in a generation hit the nations' children's especially hard, according to a new report.


A larger number of children fell into poverty between 2008 and 2009 than was ever recorded before in a single year, going back to 1960. Nearly 21 percent of children lived in poverty as of 2009, the most recent year for which data is available, making children more likely than any other age group to be poor. Read more...