Another study by the Congresional Research Service and the Congressional Budget Office found a 50 per cent increase in child poverty in the US in the last two decades. About 22 percent of all children under 18 are living in poverty. To out of every five Latino children are poor and nearly one in two black children I spoor. Two trends are clear in the recent data. One is what sociologists are calling the feminisation of poverty.
Single mothers form the largest percentage of the poor.
Around 55 per cent of all poor children are living in a female-headed single parent household. The second trend is the growth of the working poor , those who are employed at poverty-level wages in largely unskilled jobs. The surveys show that a person with four children who is paid the federal minimum wage for a full time job is earning 4,000 below the poverty line. All of a sudden two Luftwaffe Phantom jets flew right over the tent. We could hear them coming.