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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Number of poor kids keeps growing

Once a year, the non-profit Colorado Children's Campaign takes the pulse of the state's kids, and for the second year in a row it has a discouraging diagnosis.

The campaign’s 2008 report found that the number of Colorado children living in poverty had increased 73 percent from 2000 to 2006.

This year’s study found an 85 percent increase from 2000 to 2007, with 192,000 Colorado children below the poverty line (defined as income of $22,050 a year for a family of four).

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