➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ:
US: Child Poverty Declines After Peaking in 2011
Annie E. Casey Foundation – September 16, 2016
After the Great Recession, the nation’s child poverty rate increased steadily, peaking at 23% in 2011. Since then, the rate has been on a slow decline and, in 2015, reached its lowest level in five years, at which point one out of every five children lived in poverty.
http://www.aecf.org/blog/child-poverty-declines-after-peaking-in-2011/