Sobering statistics on child poverty - The Education Report - Katy Murphy's blog on Oakland schools

Sobering statistics on child poverty - The Education Report - Katy Murphy's blog on Oakland schools:

Sobering statistics on child poverty

By Katy Murphy
Wednesday, November 30th, 2011 at 9:15 pm in families.

The number of school-age children living in poverty soared by 30 percent(!) in California between 2007 and 2010, according to new estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau.

In the United States, nearly 2 million more children between the ages of 5 and 17 fell into poverty during that time.

I wrote about that depressing trend today, in this story. My colleague Danny Willis created a database that lets you search the numbers by school district boundary and county. You’ll find it at the end of the piece.

You know what the poverty line is, as defined by the Census? For a family of four