Colorado Child-Poverty On The Rise: 2010 Kids Count Data Book

The 2010 Kids Count Data Book was released Tuesday by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, an organization that tracks state data on child welfare. The report found that child poverty grew 50 percent in Colorado from 2000 to 2008, compared to a national rate of 6 percent for the same period.

A more detailed report, released in April, showed that child poverty in Colorado from 2000-2008 grew fastest along the Front Range. While child poverty in El Paso and Denver Counties increased 63 percent during the eight-year period, Arapahoe County saw a 100 percent increase. Adams County child-poverty increased 96 percent.

Check out some of the Annie E. Casey Foundation's startling findings below:

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Colorado's percent of children in poverty increased 50 percent over the 8-year period, compared to 6 percent nationally. Poverty levels were defined as income below $21,834 for a family of two adults and two children in 2008. Colorado placed 18th out of 50 states in this category.

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Colorado's percent of children in poverty increased 50 percent over the 8-year period, compared to 6 percent nationally. Poverty levels were defined as income below $21,834 for a family of two adults and two children in 2008. Colorado placed 18th out of 50 states in this category.

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[Lisa Willis]

05:34 AM on 08/03/2010

I don't understand! Why is this?! The article doesn't say what has caused this drastic increase. What have we been doing so horribly wrong that has caused these unforgivable numbers of poverty-stricken chidren? Let me know, please - what can we do?

[Izomagritte369]

11:37 PM on 08/01/2010

I lived in Colorado for 22 years and finally had to leave in the 80's becuse it had been invaded by fundamentalist church groups and right wing politics that literally changed the the whole nature of the front range. Newspapers who did not espouse their views were put out of business, libraries who that would not remove books they had "banned" had their funding blocked, school teachers who weren't Xtians were run out of jobs, and gay establishments and Planned Parenthood were persecuted and harrassed. It was one of the ugliest things I have ever seen.
I guess all those Xtian "family values" they forced on folks haven't worked out very well for the children of Colorado. But then fundamentalists and right wingerst only care about the "unborn", after that kids are left to fend for themselves in the "I got mine, EF you" world they have created. Very sad and very wrong.

[Bega]

06:53 PM on 07/31/2010

The GOP of Colorado has facilitated the outcome. Is it not in that State guys like Tancredo live?

[1differentdrummer]

09:45 AM on 07/28/2010

Government? Starve the beast! Thanks, wingnuts.

[Zanubiyah]

10:22 PM on 07/27/2010

What? The Mekkah of Evangelical Christianity? Must be all of that attention to those Muslims that is diverted from thier children...yea...that's it I think.

[sodium]

12:24 AM on 07/28/2010

LOL! Trust Zanubiyah to inject religious intolerance into a topic about poverty levels.

[Zanubiyah]

01:28 AM on 07/28/2010

Sodium...

When Evangelical Christians learn to love thier own faith more than they hare my faith...I will stop.

[sodium]

10:50 PM on 07/28/2010

Zanubiyah :"sodium...Perhaps when you address women you don't know in your culture, you call them 'babe'. In my culture, this is an insult. Please refrain from being 'comfortable' in your language."

Sorry Zoobs, but I cannot and will not stop being comfortable in my language.

Oh and please lighten up about the "babe" comment. I know several malaysians and they have no problem with that sort of friendly and informal chit chat.


Zanubiayh:" I dont get into these arguements of 'there is God, or not God'."

Of course not. ...;p)


Zanubiyah:" To me, the lack of evidence is not proof that something doesn't exist.I choose to belive, and you dont. Simple."

I get that. Oh boy do I get that.


But for the record, I think of myself as reasonable person. You know, I don't ask for eearth shattering miracles or cataclysmic evidence of a god's existence.

I'd settle for even the tiniest, most insignificant, smallest, minutest, microscopic hint of a suggestion of a possibility of even a micron of evidence.......after all these years we've been on earth, to date there has not been even a fraction of a millipoofteenth of an ant's fart of any sort of proof of the existence of a god.

Makes it kind of hard to put one's faith, time, money and life-long servitude into such an obviously man made idea, doesn't it?

[Zanubiyah]

11:50 PM on 07/28/2010

Sodium...

I dont ask for miracles either. I am content with the will of Allah, as it is manifested in the Qur'an.

Again...The lack of evidence is not proof that something doesn't exist. It is for you to seek evidence, or not. Allah is something you find, or dont find on your own.

[ruburnt]

09:39 PM on 07/27/2010

Is it a possible result of being a sanctuary city state?

[rflctammt]

09:17 AM on 08/01/2010

I was waiting for that one.

[Izomagritte369]

11:44 PM on 08/01/2010

No - it is a result of being run and overrun by fundamentalist Xtians and right wing politicians who don't care about children (unless they are still fetuses) or poor people.

[dogface]

08:21 PM on 07/27/2010

Don't think we in our culture cannot regress. Mankind has many, many episodes of tragic, long-term regression.

We are currently on a trajectory for severe, long-term regression. We require drastic change to move our trajectory from regression to progress.

[runtwelds]

07:17 PM on 07/27/2010

anyone who wonders why one of many obstacles education has in these tough times need look no further. one of the only stable and safe places for impoverished children is their local school and with republicans and uninformed democrats attacking education where will these children go? what will happen when the only investment in them is cut?

[Alethea]

05:27 PM on 07/27/2010

This is just heartbreaking. We should be ashamed.

[Rob Reuteman]

04:07 PM on 07/27/2010

Hardly an objective source.