http://www.stopfamilyviolence.org/info/poverty-abuse en-us A growing number of American children are living in poverty and with unemployed parents, and are facing the threat of hunger, according to a federal report. 18% of all children 17 and younger were living in poverty in 2007, up from 17% in 2006. The percentage of children with at least one parent working full time was 77% in 2007, down from 78% in 2006. http://www.stopfamilyviolence.org/info/poverty-abuse/child-poverty-rising-report-says http://www.stopfamilyviolence.org/info/poverty-abuse/child-poverty-rising-report-says If nothing else, the recession is serving as a stress test for the American safety net. How prepared have we been for sudden and violent economic dislocations of the kind that leave millions homeless and jobless? http://www.stopfamilyviolence.org/info/poverty-abuse/a-homespun-safety-net http://www.stopfamilyviolence.org/info/poverty-abuse/a-homespun-safety-net Welfare is the only cash safety-net program for single moms and their kids, notes Rebecca Blank, an economist at the Brookings Institution and one of the nation's leading experts on poverty. "One has to worry, with a recession, about the number of women who, if they get unemployed, are not going to have anywhere to turn." http://www.stopfamilyviolence.org/info/poverty-abuse/brave-new-welfare http://www.stopfamilyviolence.org/info/poverty-abuse/brave-new-welfare