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America’s Child Poverty Rate

According to the latest US Census Bureau Report, the child poverty rate for 2015 was 19.7 percent. Can you imagine, in the richest country in the world almost one fifth of our children are growing up in households where they are living paycheck to paycheck? What is this doing to their bodies, to their minds, to their ability to learn?

The poverty rate for children’s the highest of all age groups.

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Originally posted on November 10, 2016 by Franklin Schargel

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