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Colorado's Child Poverty Rate Escalates

By Andrea Chalfin

· Apr. 14, 2010, 9:54 am

Colorado earned bragging rights yesterday, but not the good kind. The state has the fastest growing childhood poverty rate in the country for the third year in a row. The data was released in a new report from the non-partisan Colorado Children's Campaign. Bente Birkeland takes a look behind the numbers.

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