Report suggest US children left behind in economic recovery

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A new report on child welfare says more US children are living in poverty than before the Great Recession.

The report, released by the Annie E. Casey Foundation child advocacy group, says 22 percent of American children were living in poverty in 2013 compared with 18 percent in 2008.

Poverty rates were nearly double among African-Americans and American Indians, and were most severe in the South and Southwest.