Child Poverty Rampant in Many of Biggest U.S. Cities
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Detroit has the highest level of child poverty in the nation, according to new statistics. In this 2010 photo, the Detroit Public Schools Book Depository has been abandoned since a fire in 1987. As Detroit’s population has contracted, many schools have closed and are now shuttered and abandoned.
Child poverty increased in 35 of the biggest U.S. cities in the past eight years, and millions of children now live in families barely scraping by, a new analysis shows.
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