(Steve Griffin / The Salt Lake Tribune) Lindsey Meyer works with her students as Lt. Governor Spencer Cox visits a Head Start classroom as he and the Intergenerational Welfare Reform Commission officially release UtahÕs Fifth Annual Report on intergenerational poverty, welfare dependency and the use of public assistance during a press conference Thursday September 29, 2016. Utah is taking a unique approach to addressing intergenerational poverty by distinguishing from situational poverty and by using a two-generation approach to families by serving parents and children simultaneously in four focus areas: early childhood development, education, health and family economic stability.
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