Link to September 28 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article, "City is 11th poorest in nation".Excerpt: The city's poverty rate for children 18 years and younger was 31.9%.
The latest census estimates from the 2008 American Community Survey show that the poverty rate in the city has dropped since its peak in 2006, from 26.2% to 23.4%. And the raw numbers show the number of people living below the poverty threshold in Milwaukee has decreased from 142,944 to 132,189 the past three years.
During that time, the number of children living in poverty dropped more drastically from 59,131 to 49,952, or from 38.5% to 31.9%.
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