Research finds 1 in 8 children in Hawaii live in poverty
Wednesday, July 22, 2015 - 06:30
in Health & Medicine
According to the 2015 KIDS COUNT Data Book from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, over 40,000 children, or roughly one in eight kids, in Hawai'i live in poverty. This trend has become worse both nationally and locally since 2008 when the country was in the midst of the recession.