Report: Immigrants' children fastest growing youth population in Nebraska

Even though most immigrant children live in two-parent families, most of them are living in poverty. Their parents don't have much education, can't speak English well and therefore have low paying jobs. - - Donna Poisl

By ERIN ANDERSEN / Lincoln Journal Star

Nearly one in eight Nebraska kids were born to immigrants in 2008 -- making them the state's fastest growing youth population.

But statistics find these kids face more barriers than children of U.S.-born parents, according to the 2009 Kids Count report released Wednesday.

Sixty-one percent of children born to immigrants live in poverty -- compared with 13.4 percent of Nebraska children as a whole.
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