One in Five American Children Living in Poverty
And how do these numbers affect federal education policy? None, not even mentioned. More testing to identify the poor, and more parrot learning now pushed into pre-K and kindergarten, where children learn to respond, rather than understand and think. From USA Today:
The rate of children living in poverty this year will climb to nearly 22%, the highest rate in two decades, according to an analysis by the non-profit Foundation for Child Development. Nearly 17% of children were living in poverty in 2006, before the recession began.
The foundation's Child and Youth Well-Being Index tracks 28 key statistics about children, such as health insurance coverage, parents' employment, infant mortality and preschool enrollment.
The report projects that the percentage of children living in families with an "insecure" source of