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Kids Count Policy Report Releases Child Poverty Numbers, Arizona 5th Highest In Country

More than half of the kids in Arizona younger than eight live in low-income families, the fifth-highest percentage in the country.

That’s one of the findings from a new Kids Count Policy Report, which calls for a two-generation approach to dealing with childhood poverty.

Dana Wolfe Naimark is President and CEO of Children’s Action Alliance and said the theory is that by helping parents you can, by extension, help their kids.

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Mark Brodie is a co-host of The Show, KJZZ’s locally produced news magazine. Since starting at KJZZ in 2002, Brodie has been a host, reporter and producer, including several years covering the Arizona Legislature, based at the Capitol.