Child Poverty in States Hit by Hurricane Katrina

Publication Date: September 2005

Publisher: Columbia University. National Center for Children in Poverty

Author(s): Sarah Fass; Nancy K. Cauthen

Research Area: Social conditions

Keywords: child poverty

Type: Fact sheet

Coverage: Louisiana Mississippi Mississippi

Abstract:

Many of the most vulnerable residents of the states hit by Hurricane Katrina - Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama - are poor children and disproportionately African American. Some 38 percent of children in New Orleans live in poverty compared to the national average of 17 percent, and Louisiana has the second highest rate of extreme child poverty in the United States.