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Children in poverty in Georgia

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Ferriss, Abbott L

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Encyclopedia article about impoverished children living in Georgia. The 2000 U.S. census found that, in Georgia, 354,633 related children under the age of eighteen were living below the poverty level. A majority of these, 222,909, were African American and represented 30 percent of all black children in the state. The census figures show that 9 percent, or 113,621, of all white children, and 25 percent, or 33,364, of all Hispanic children in the state also live in poverty.
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