One in five American children now living in poverty according to new report
14.7million children in families with income less than $21,756 a year
Child poverty increased in 38 states from 2000 to 2009
Mississippi is state with highest level - 31 per cent
New Hampshire is state with smallest level - 11 per cent
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 3:52 PM on 17th August 2011
Karla Washington worries how she will afford new school uniforms for her five-year-old daughter.
Washington, an undergraduate student, earns less than $11,000 a year from a part-time university job.
The salary must cover food, rent, health care, child care and the occasional splurge on a Blue's Clues item for her only child.
'My biggest fear is not providing my daughter with everything that she needs to be a balanced child, to be independent, to be safe, to feel like she is of value,' said Washington, 41
One in five in poverty: 14.7million - or 20 per cent - of children in the U.S. live in families with incomes below the federal poverty level
Washington's economic woes are seen throughout Nevada, where the nation's highest unemployment and foreclosure rates have combined to devastate families and empty neighbourhoods and construction yards.
A national study on child well-being published today found Nevada had the highest rate of children whose parents are unemployed and underemployed.
The state is also home to the most children affected by foreclosures — 13 percent of all Silver State babies, toddlers and teenagers have been kicked out of their homes because of an unpaid mortgage, the study found.
Across the nation, the research by the Annie E. Casey Foundation found that child poverty increased in 38 states from 2000 to 2009. As a result, 14.7 million children, 20 per cent, were poor in 2009.
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