BY MICHAEL HAYNE
NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM
SPECIAL COMMENTARY
CEO pay may be astronomical and actually getting higher and Wall Street may have returned to its bullish primacy, but evidence of an alarming increase in child poverty is sweeping through NJ. According to an annual report on the health, wealth and well-being of children released today by Advocates for Children of New Jersey, a nonprofit research group, nearly one-third of New Jersey’s children 5 and under were living in low-income households in 2011. And the rate of child poverty during the economic abortion of 2008-2011 grew by a whopping 20 percent, with families with the youngest children being hit the hardest.
