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May 18, 2009

YOUNG VOICES

How Is This for Sobering?
by Staff


 

In a report out this week, the Economic Policy Institute says that more than half of African American children will likely be living in poverty next year. The numbers are staggering. The overall childhood poverty rate will climb to 27% and the poverty rate for African American children will reach 52.3% in 2010.

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Published May 18, 2009

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