Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Shame of a nation

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Shame of a nation

Shame of a nation

Millions of children growing up in poverty

A couple of new reports caught my eye yesterday. The first was a new study on child well-being put out by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. It found that child poverty is on the rise in the U.S. with as many as 1 in 5 children living in poverty. Of course, that figure represents a nationwide