Huffington Post: This Map Shows How Many More Students Are Living In Poverty Than 9 Years Ago

Photo Credit: Ed Yourdon

by Rebecca Klein

Students in America’s schools are much, much poorer than they were nine years ago.

In 2006, 31 percent of America’s students attended schools in “high-poverty” districts, meaning that 20 percent or more of the district’s students lived below the federal poverty line. By 2013, however, this number jumped to over 49 percent, according to an analysis of U.S. Census estimates from the nonprofit EdBuild. This means that nearly half of the nation’s children between the ages of 5 and 17 attend schools in communities where a large chunk of families are struggling to get by.

See the map and the rest of the story at the Huffington Post.

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