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<p><a href="http://www.childrensdefense.org"><span>Children&rsquo;s Defense Fund&nbsp;</span></a></p>
<p><span>Poverty data released by the U.S. Census Bureau on September 13, 2016 reveal child poverty declined last year to 14.5 million poor children, one million fewer than in 2014, but still higher than before the recession began in 2007. The national child poverty rate declined from 21.1 percent in 2014 to 19.7 percent in 2015, a statistically significant decrease. Child poverty rates declined for White, Black, Hispanic and Asian children. Children of color are disproportionately poor and comprise nearly 70 percent of poor children in America. Children remain the poorest age group in the nation, and the 1 in 5 poor children continue to have the odds stacked against their success. </span></p>
<p><span>Child Poverty </span></p>
<p><span>There were 43.1 million poor people in America in 2015, and one in three were children. Nearly 20 percent of children were poor in 2015, compared to 12.4 percent of people ages 18-64 and 8.8 percent of people ages 65 and older. </span></p>
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<p><span> &nbsp;</span><span>There were </span><span>14,509,000 </span><span>children living in poverty in 2015. </span></p>
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<p><span> &nbsp;</span><span>The percent of children living in poverty was </span><span>19.7 percent </span><span>in 2015, a 6.6 percent decrease from </span><span>21.1 </span></p>
<p><span>percent in 2014. </span></p>
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<p><span> &nbsp;</span><span>Poverty is defined as an </span><span>annual income below $24,257 </span><span>for an average family of four, meaning less </span></p>
<p><span>than </span><span>$2,021 </span><span>a month</span><span>, $466 </span><span>a week, or </span><span>$66.46 </span><span>a day. </span></p>
<p><span>Extreme Child Poverty </span></p>
<p><span>In 2015, more than 6.5 million children </span><span>&ndash; </span><span>one in 11 </span><span>&ndash; </span><span>lived in extreme poverty, defined as an annual income of less than half the poverty level, or </span><span>$12,129 </span><span>for a family of four, which amounts to less than $1,011 a month, $233 a week, or $33 a day. </span></p>
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<p><span> &nbsp;</span><span>The number of children living in extreme poverty: </span><span>6,537,000 </span></p>
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<p><span> &nbsp;</span><span>The percent of children living in extreme poverty: </span><span>8.9 percent, </span><span>a 4.3 percent decrease from 9.3 percent in 2014.&nbsp;</span></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.childrensdefense.org/library/data/child-poverty-in-america-2015.pdf"><span>MORE&gt;&gt;</span></a></p>
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