...59,000 children in Wisconsin have been impacted by home foreclosure since 2007 (Source: Population Reference Bureau)
...129,000 children in Wisconsin had at least one unemployed parent in 2010 (Source: Population Reference Bureau)
...Children are at higher risk of being in poverty than the population as a whole. 16.7% of children under 18 in Wisconsin lived in poverty in 2009. This compares to 12.4% of the Wisconsin population as a whole living in poverty in 2009. (Source: Annie E. Casey Foundation)
"Did You Know...?" is a feature of the Vision 2020 website. It's our goal to bring you a series of facts about numerous issues related to poverty and to highlight the work other organizations are doing around poverty elimination. If your organization has a fact(s) you'd like to see on the "Did You Know...?" feature, please contact Sabrina Gentile at sgentile@wccf.org or
(608) 284-0580, ext. 306.
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