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08/03/2015

Children of the Recession: The impact of the economic crisis on child well-being in rich countries (2014)

Children of the Recession: The impact of the economic crisis on child well-being in rich countries

http://www.unicef-irc.org/publications/733

Gonzalo Fanjul, UNICEF, Rick Boychuck

Search Terms: poverty, great recession, national, innocenti

Summary: As the data in this new edition of the Innocenti Report Card series show, in the past five years, rising numbers of children and their families have experienced difficulty in satisfying their most basic material and educational needs. Most importantly, the Great Recession is about to trap a generation of educated and capable youth in a limbo of unmet expectations and lasting vulnerability. League Tables, the flagship tool of the Innocenti Report Card series, rank the change, since the onset of the crisis, in the poverty levels of children and the impact of the recession on youth. The Report also explores the effects of the recession on youth seeking to enter or remain in the labor force in the middle of a recession.