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New Research: 73% of Wisconsin’s Black Children Lived in Financial Hardship Pre-Pandemic
The majority of Wisconsin’s Black and Hispanic children — 73% and 57% respectively — lived in households that couldn’t afford the basics in 2019, compared to 29% of white children, according to a new report from United Way of Kenosha County (UWKC) and its research partner United For ALICE. ALICE in Focus: Children reveals the disproportionate impact of financial hardship on the state’s Black and Hispanic children, while also challenging the reliance on federal poverty guidelines for eligibility for assistance programs. The report finds traditional measures of poverty have severely undercounted the number of children of all races ages 18 ... Read more