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Home News In The News About those free meals: Report indicates half of Detroit children live in poverty
About those free meals: Report indicates half of Detroit children live in poverty
August 17, 2011| MLive.com
Roughly 23 percent of Michigan children were living in poverty as of 2009, according to the Kids Count report released this week by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Sad as that statistic may be, the child poverty rate in the state's largest city was much worse.

More than 50 percent of Detroit kids lived in households with incomes below $21,756, according to the 2009 data, and roughly 27 percent live in extreme poverty. The economy hasn't improved much in the past two years, and it's likely those figures have and will continue to rise.
 

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