National Youth Poverty Poll Ranks Lack of Jobs as #1 Cause of Poverty

Sunday, December 11, 2011 - 12:00 in Health & Medicine

American young people say that the top two causes of poverty are a lack of jobs (82.8 percent) followed by a lack of health insurance (69.4 percent) according to a new national survey of young Americans' attitudes on poverty, conducted by Hamilton College. The full results of this survey will be available online and presented by webcast on Monday, Dec. 12, at 11 a.m. EST at www.hamilton.edu/poverty

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