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Why are so many children living in poverty?

Clip: 7/21/2015 | 7m 5s

Why minority kids are being left behind by the economic recovery

Child poverty is worse now than it was before the Great Recession, despite strides toward economic recovery. That's according to a new report by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, which found that rates were most severe for African-American and Native American children. Gwen Ifill talks to Annie E. Casey Foundation President Patrick McCarthy and Mark Hugo Lopez of the Pew Research Center.

07/21/2015 | Rating NR

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