Fewer D.C. kids are living in pockets of poverty, a reversal of a national trend, but the District still holds a higher concentrated poverty rate than any state and ranks 10th-highest among the nation’s largest cities.
Roughly 33,000 children in the District live in concentrated poverty, neighborhoods where at least 30 percent of their neighbors live below the poverty line, according to a new Kids Count report by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. The number is an 11 percent drop from the 37,000 children counted in 2000, while the national percentage of children living in concentrated poverty has climbed by one-quarter. A family of four living in poverty earns less than $22,314 per year, according to federal guidelines.
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