Federal data gaps aside, poverty on the rise as RI families struggle to meet basic living expenses

By: Alexander Castro

Outlets: Rhode Island Current

Published: May 4, 2026

Words: 1,634

Last Updated: 2 months ago

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The latest iteration of Rhode Island KIDS COUNT’s annual Factbook contains the usual thickness of line graphs, pie charts and data tables containing no shortage of metrics and rulers meant to track the wellbeing of Ocean State youth.

The nearly 200-page edition scheduled for release at a breakfast event in Warwick Monday also includes, as it has in years past, poems inked by some of those youth. They include one by Ashton Richards, a …

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