In a new report released by the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP), a research center at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, researchers found that child poverty rate for all large cities in the US is at 30.6.
Nearly three out of five children in Detroit are poor, a rate that has grown by 10 percent since the Great Recession in 2007, Medical Daily reported.
The poverty rate for all children in general living in the US in 2013 was 19.9 percent, but the child poverty rate for all large cities in the US is at 30.6 — a significantly higher percentage that shows big cities are the most affected. Between 2012 and 2013, the national child poverty rate fell by two percentage points; but the big city rate only decreased by one percentage point.