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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Julia Lyon / The Bulletin
June 2, 2002
When the U.S. government took a statistical snapshot of Central Oregon in 1989, 12.9 percent of families with children lived in poverty.
Ten years later, the numbers have improved, at least by one measure.
Eleven percent of Central Oregon families with children younger than age 18 were living....