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Fast Facts from the Vermont Community Foundation
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Vermont ranks fifth lowest in the nation for childhood poverty. Still, a full 12% of the state’s children live at or below the poverty line. In Bennington, Caledonia, Essex, Orleans, Rutland, and Windham counties, childhood poverty rates exceed the national average.
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Twenty-eight percent of Vermont’s children live with a single parent—these families are statistically more likely to be low-income, especially when headed by women. Compounding the problem, one-third of child support payments due are never collected.
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Kids Count, the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s national and state-by-state effort to track the status of children, ranked Vermont sixth in the country for childhood well-being in 2006.
Read more about Childhood Poverty in Understanding Vermont or get a copy of the entire publication
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