S.B. County ranks high for homeless students, By Dayna Straehley, September 11, 2014, Press Enterprise: “San Bernardino County’s 8.1 percent of homeless students is the fifth-highest county rate in the state, according to a new study released Wednesday. Riverside County also ranked above average, with 5.2 percent of its public school students lacking permanent housing, according to the California Homeless Youth Project, kidsdata.org and the Lucille Packard Foundation for Children’s Health…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty