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DATE: MONDAY, March 23, 1992                   TAG: 9203230092
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A10   EDITION: METRO 
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U.S. YOUTH INCREASINGLY FACE POVERTY

America's youth are more likely to live in poverty and die because of violence than ever before, according to a report to be issued today by a Washington think tank.

The report prepared by the Center for the Study of Social Policy found that between 1988 and 1989 alone, the teen death rate rose 11 percent, driven almost entirely by a rise in suicides and homicides.

By the beginning of the 1990s, over 20 percent of nation's youth were living below the poverty line. That represented a 22 percent increase during the 1980s.

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