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Krissy Clark

Child Poverty on the Rise in the United States

Nearly 15 million, or 21 percent, of children in the United States live in families with incomes below $22,350, the federal poverty threshold set by the U.S Census Bureau.   This number has been on the rise since 2001, when 16.9 percent of children living in the United States were reported to live in families with […]

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