U.S. Child Poverty Is On The Rise (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

Interview:
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2013/06/25/child-poverty-america

The latest numbers out of a big new national survey find almost one in four American children is now living in poverty. In the worst state, New Mexico, it’s 30 percent.
Even in an era of recession, these are deeply troubling numbers. For individual children, they mean deprivation in ways that can shape, limit an entire life. All this in an era when upward mobility has shut down.
For a country, it’s a tough indicator on the future.
This hour, On Point: Facing and fixing child poverty. What would it take?

– Tom Ashbrook