ATLANTA AP – Children in Georgia families living below poverty are almost five times more likely to suffer poor health than their wealthier counterparts – among the biggest income-based gaps in children’s health in the nation, according to a new report that found similar disparities across the South.
Georgia ranked 41, near the bottom, with one of the highest gulfs between the health status of poor and well-off children in the nation. A handful of southern states also filled out the bottom ten, among them Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas, which had the highest gap in the nation.
