New Haven Independent

A Poor Report Card

by Paul Bass | August 30, 2006 1:40 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

A whopping 27 percent of New Haven lives below the poverty line, according to new Census Bureau stats. It’s worse for kids: 40 percent of New Haveners under 18 are poor. Click here for the breakdown for New Haven. The stats show 9.3 of the state living below the federal poverty level; the rate for children is 12.4 percent. The bureau reports 11.3 percent of the state, or 394,000 people, without health insurance. To learn more of what it means, and what advocates suggest doing about it, click here to read a Voices for Children release.

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