RT Journal
A1 Wise PH
T1 CHildren of the recession
JF Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
JO Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
YR 2009
FD November 1
VO 163
IS 11
SP 1063
OP 1064
DO 10.1001/archpediatrics.2009.199
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpediatrics.2009.199
AB 
Children are poor because their parents are poor, a fact that ties the well-being of children to the employment status of young adults. As of June 2009, the overall unemployment rate reached 9.5%, the highest in a generation, and it is expected to reach levels unseen since World War II.1 These figures are far worse for African American and Latino families. If one uses a broader unemployment definition that includes workers who have given up looking for a job and part-time workers who want to be working full time, the national figure is 16.8%. The comparable figure for Oregon is 23% and 22% for Michigan. In addition, the duration of unemployment has also been rising steadily, a trend that has dire consequences for family income and therefore child poverty. Based on the analyses of earlier recessions, it is estimated that this recession will move at least 3 to 4 million additional children into poverty.2