Health Policy Solutions reports on growing poverty levels among Colorado children. On the plus side, healthcare access is improving in the state, and will get even better when the state's healthcare exchange opens in the fall.
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The percentage of Colorado children whose families live in poverty nearly doubled over the last decade from 10 to 18 percent, marking the steepest increase in the country except for Nevada, according to the 2013 KIDS COUNT report.
That meant that an additional 6,000 children sunk into poverty between 2010 and 2011, on top of 113,000 children already subjected to poverty since 2000.
"We are not where we should be. We are not even close to where we want to be," Gov. John Hickenlooper said Monday when the Colorado Children’s Campaign unveiled the new data at the Capitol.
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