{"id":1859,"date":"2012-07-30T13:58:42","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T17:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=1859"},"modified":"2013-12-13T08:11:28","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T13:11:28","slug":"as-nj-poor-get-poorer-rich-get-much-richer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/as-nj-poor-get-poorer-rich-get-much-richer\/","title":{"rendered":"As NJ poor get poorer, rich get MUCH richer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Legal Services of New Jersey’s (aka Legal Aid) Poverty Research Institute income disparity study<\/a><\/p>\n

entitled \u201cIncome Inequality in New Jersey: The Growing Divide and Its Consequences,\u201d found the distribution of income between 2000 and the end of 2009 was heavily one-sided, with more than three quarters of the income gains going to the well-to-do in just 20 percent of the state\u2019s households. That left little for everyone else, and some backtracked.<\/p>\n

Significantly, more than a quarter of the gains went to just the top or richest one percent of the populace \u2013 an estimated 75,000 people living in households with incomes of at least $570,000. On the other end, those in the 40 percent of the state\u2019s households with incomes under $34,300 \u2013 roughly 3 million people \u2013 actually saw their incomes take a hit during the decade.<\/p>\n

\u2026 despite a brief dip in the income inequality barometer during the Great Recession from December 2007 to June 2009, the gap between the haves and have-nots once again widened in 2010. And there already are forecasts by economic experts that, when the Census figures for 2011 are released in a few months, poverty will have increased in the nation to the highest level in some 50 years.<\/p>\n

\u2026 Legal Services president Melville D. Miller, Jr., announced that the non-profit organization will do annual studies of the issue and release such \u201cinequality audits\u201d to the public.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How Youth are affected<\/h3>\n

The Annie E. Casey Foundation’s 2012 KIDS COUNT\u00ae Data Book<\/a> puts New Jersey in 19th place nationally in Economic wellness, a category which takes into account the<\/p>\n

\u2026percentage of children in poverty, median family income and percentage of households spending a large part of income on rent.<\/p>\n

The result \u201cis an uphill battle\u201d for the state\u2019s youth, says Cecilia Zalkind, executive director of Newark-based Advocates for Children of New Jersey. ACNJ compiles statistics by county, while the Annie E. Casey Foundation measures numbers statewide for the Kids Count report\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cOur sense is that low-income families are really struggling,\u201d Zalkind adds. \u201cThey\u2019re having a much harder time bouncing back (from the recession) than the rest of the state.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2010, nearly one-third of the state\u2019s children lived in a low-income household, an increase of 14 percent from 2006, according to Census figures, the primary source of data for the Kids Count report. The number of children living in a family where no parent had regular, full-time employment was 27 percent, up from 25 percent in 2009.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Legal Services of New Jersey’s (aka Legal Aid) Poverty Research Institute income disparity study entitled \u201cIncome Inequality in New Jersey: The Growing Divide and Its Consequences,\u201d found the distribution of income between 2000 and the end of 2009 was heavily one-sided, with more than three quarters of the income gains going to the well-to-do in … <\/p>\n

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