POVERTY INCREASES IN CONNECTICUT

While the recession officially ended in June of 2009, Census Bureau data show that in Connecticut, 10.7% of people were poor in 2013 – an increase from 2009 when 9.4% were poor. For a family of four, that means living on an income under $23,834. The share of households with income under $25,000 has grown, while the share of households making $50,000 or more has fallen. More people live in near-poverty than in 2009; one-quarter of Nutmeggers live below twice the federal poverty level, or less than $47,668 for a family of four. Children remain the most disproportionately poor – roughly one out of seven children in Connecticut, as well as more than one out of four African American children and one out of three Hispanic children, are growing up in poverty here. 

Source: Connecticut Association of Human Services, 9/23/14, CT Poverty; CT Voices for Children, 9/14, CT Poverty II