Childhood Hunger
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Federal anti-poverty efforts began in rural America. But discussions of poverty in the U.S. now largely exclude rural communities — even though a fifth of all poor children are rural.
July 23
Poor Rural Children: The Forgotten Fifth
One out of five poor children in the United States lives in a rural area, O’Hare reports. “Yet this group of vulnerable young Americans is seldom on the minds of the public or policy makers when they talk about child poverty in the United States,” O’Hare writes. “The image, rather, is overwhelmingly an urban one despite higher poverty rates in rural areas for decades.” Read the full article »
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