Posted on January 1, 2013
The Recession's Ongoing Impact on Children, 2012
The Recession's Ongoing Impact on Children, 2012
The economic well-being of children in the United States barely improved in 2012 and remained considerably worse than before the onset of the Great Recession, a report from the
Urban Institute and First Focus finds.
Based on the number of children with an unemployed parent, the number of children receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, and the child poverty rate, the report, The Recession's Ongoing Impact on Children, 2012 (21 pages, PDF), tracked how children fared from 2007 through September 2012. Among other things, the report found that in an average month in 2012, an estimated 6.3 million children were living in families with an unemployed parent — slightly below the average monthly figure of 7 million in 2011 but well above the pre-recession figure of 3.5 million — and that 2.8 million children lived with a parent who had been unemployed for at least six months. The report also found that an estimated 21.6 million children nationwide — more than one in four — received SNAP benefits in 2012, and it projects that, when the final tally is in, the child poverty rate will hold steady at 22.5 percent.
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