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Schools Matter: Sen. Sanders gets the facts right on poverty; the fed's solution will make it worse.

Schools Matter: Sen. Sanders gets the facts right on poverty; the fed's solution will make it worse.:

Sen. Sanders gets the facts right on poverty; the fed's solution will make it worse.

Sen. Sanders gets the facts right on poverty; the fed's solution will make it worse.

Stephen Krashen

Senator Bernie Sanders reminds us that "… the United States has both the highest overall poverty rate and the highest childhood poverty rate of any major industrialized country on earth. This comes at a time when the U.S. also has the most unequal distribution of wealth and income of any major country on earth with the top 1 percent earning more than the bottom 50 percent." (See his full essay below)

Stating the facts on poverty will not impress this administration. They think