Report suggests US children left behind in economic recovery

A new report on child welfare that found more U.S. children living in poverty than before the Great Recession belies the fanfare of the nation's economic turnaround. According to the report released Tuesday from the child advocacy group the Annie E. Casey Foundation, 22 percent of American children were living in poverty in 2013 compared with 18 percent in 2008, according to the latest Kids Count Data Book, with poverty rates nearly double among African-Americans and American Indians and problems most severe in South and Southwest. Mississippi came out as the worst state for child poverty with more than a third of all children living in poverty.