{"id":3436,"date":"2007-06-03T20:36:43","date_gmt":"2007-06-04T03:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/06\/03\/state-rankings-low-income-and-poor-children\/"},"modified":"2007-06-03T20:36:43","modified_gmt":"2007-06-04T03:56:31","slug":"state-rankings-low-income-and-poor-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3436","title":{"rendered":"State Rankings: Low Income and Poor Children"},"content":{"rendered":"

The National Center for Children in Poverty has released a brief on how state policies affect low income children and children living in poverty. You can link to the entire report here.<\/a>\u00a0 Here are the states with the highest and lowest percentages of children who are poor or low income.<\/p>\n

10 States With the Highest % Low Income Children (low income is defined as income at or below 200% of the poverty level; this would be under $40,000 for a family of 4 in 2006)<\/p>\n

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  1. New\u00a0Mexico 58%\u00a0<\/li>\n
  2. Arizona 55%<\/li>\n
  3. Mississippi 55%\u00a0<\/li>\n
  4. Montana 55%\u00a0<\/li>\n
  5. Louisiana 53%<\/li>\n
  6. Texas 53%<\/li>\n
  7. West Virginia 50%<\/li>\n
  8. Oklahoma 49%<\/li>\n
  9. Arkansas 49%<\/li>\n
  10. Kentucky 48% (tie)<\/li>\n
  11. Washington, DC 48% (tie)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    10 States With the Highest % Children in Poverty (poverty would be below $20,000 for a family of 4 in 2006)<\/p>\n

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    1. Washington, DC 30%<\/li>\n
    2. Alabama 29%<\/li>\n
    3. Louisiana 29%<\/li>\n
    4. New Mexico 28%<\/li>\n
    5. Arkansas 26%<\/li>\n
    6. Mississippi 26%<\/li>\n
    7. Texas 26%<\/li>\n
    8. Arizona 25%\u00a0<\/li>\n
    9. Montana 24%<\/li>\n
    10. Kentucky 24%<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      10 States With the Lowest % of Low Income Children<\/p>\n

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      1. New Hampshire 21%\u00a0<\/li>\n
      2. Minnesota 26%\u00a0<\/li>\n
      3. Massachusetts 27%<\/li>\n
      4. Connecticut 28%<\/li>\n
      5. New Jersey 29%<\/li>\n
      6. Hawaii 32%<\/li>\n
      7. Maryland 32%<\/li>\n
      8. Colorado 35%<\/li>\n
      9. Delaware 35%<\/li>\n
      10. Virginia 35%<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        10 States With the Lowest % of Children in Poverty<\/p>\n

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        1. New Hampshire 8%<\/li>\n
        2. Minnesota 10%<\/li>\n
        3. Massachusetts 12%<\/li>\n
        4. Hawaii 12%<\/li>\n
        5. Alaska 13%<\/li>\n
        6. Colorado 13%<\/li>\n
        7. Maryland 13%<\/li>\n
        8. Nevada 14%<\/li>\n
        9. Vermont 14%<\/li>\n
        10. Connecticut 14%<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          There are is a correlation between the level of poverty among children and the percentage of the population in each state that is Non-Hispanic White<\/a>.\u00a0I calculated the correlation between the number of low income children and the % of the population that is Non-Hispanic White.\u00a0 The correlation is r=-.242.\u00a0 Which basically means that there is a negative association between the percent white and the number of low income families, or plainly put–the number of low income families increases as the percentage of the Non-Hispanic white population decreases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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