US Schoolchildren Living in Poverty

One in five U.S. schoolchildren are living below federal poverty line, By Lyndsey Layton, May 28, 2015, Washington Post: “More than one out of every five school-age children in the U.S. were living below the federal poverty line in 2013, according to new federal statistics released Thursday. That amounted to 10.9 million children — or 21 percent of the total — a six percent increase in the childhood poverty rate since 2000…”