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Top Ten States with Highest Percentage of Children under 18 Living in Poverty

 

District of Columbia   32.6 %
Mississippi 29.5 %
Louisiana 27.8 %
New Mexico 25.6 %
West Virginia   25.2 %
Arkansas 24.3 %
Oklahoma 24.3 %
Texas 23.9 %
Alabama 23.0 %
Kentucky 22.8 %
 


Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2006 American Community Survey, August 2007

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