Delaware is one of only two states in which poverty rose last year.
And more people live in poverty in the state now than before the Great Recession.
The Wilmington News Journal reports that Census Bureau says it inched up to 13.6 percent from 12.3 percent.
The other state was West Virginia.
In another 20 states saw the poverty rate decline while in the others it remained the same.
The paper reports that some of increase can be traced to the rising Hispanic population which has jumped by 63 percent to more than 89-thousand.
The census data found that 1 in 5 lived below the poverty level.
Meanwhile, the Kids Count Delaware survey…found that based on a three-year-average…16.6 percent of the state’s children live in poverty
