THE CRADLE TO PRISON PIPELINE CRISIS
Illinois Ohio
Georgia
Pennsylvania Michigan
North Carolina
543,373 508,703 484,525 464,686 445,142 429,169
17.1% 18.7% 20.2% 16.9% 18.3% 20.2%
Ten states (and the district of columbia) with the high- est child poverty rates, 2005-2006
District of Columbia Mississippi Louisiana
New Mexico West Virginia Oklahoma Arkansas Texas
Alabama Kentucky
families playing by the rules, they cannot earn enough to escape poverty. A minimum wage job pays only 58.9 percent of the federal poverty level for a family of four. Livable wages and increases in income supplements like the Earned Income and Child Tax Credits and work supports like child care and health care can close the poverty gap.
P Poverty
Child poverty in America continues to grow. In 2006, 17.4 percent of children in America, 13 million children (one in six), were poor. Today there are 1.2 million more children living in poverty than there were in 2000, an increase of 11 percent. Children under the age of five remain more likely to be poor than older children, with 4.2 million living in poverty, one out of every five.
More than half of all poor children live in 10 states: Ten states with the greatest number of poor children, 2005-2006
California Texas
New York Florida
Number 1,697,024 1,527,262 888,344 689,315
Percent 18.1% 23.9% 20.0% 17.5%
overty is the largest driving force behind the Cradle to Prison Pipeline Crisis, exacerbated by race. Al- though a majority of poor children live in working
Tennessee
Number 36,678
220,420 298,228 127,823 96,386
212,672 164,545
1,527,262 253,108 223,296
322,483
Percent 32.6% 29.5% 27.8% 25.6% 25.2% 24.3% 24.3% 23.9% 23.0% 22.8%
22.7%
There are more poor White (4.2 million) than Black (3.8 million) or Latino children (4.1 million) although Black and Latino children are dis prop orientally poor. Poverty afflicts rural, urban and suburban areas. U.S. child poverty rates exceed those of all other (and less) wealthy industrialized nations and are a national disgrace. We need leaders and citizens who will commit to ending child poverty by 2015 in the richest nation on earth.
Child poverty is not inevitable. It’s a national choice that we can change with political and moral leadership. In the
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