{"id":57775,"date":"2013-11-26T19:00:49","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T00:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=57775"},"modified":"2013-12-09T20:17:11","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T01:17:11","slug":"48-of-u-s-schoolchildren-live-in-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2013\/11\/26\/48-of-u-s-schoolchildren-live-in-poverty\/","title":{"rendered":"48% of U.S. Schoolchildren Live in Poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southerneducation.org\/getattachment\/0bc70ce1-d375-4ff6-8340-f9b3452ee088\/A-New-Majority-Low-Income-Students-in-the-South-an.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a> has discovered that 48% of the nation&#8217;s 50 million public school students are in poverty, as measured by whether they qualify for free or reduced-priced lunches. \u00a0In 17 states, the majority of schoolchildren are poor. \u00a0Poverty rates are led by Mississippi, where 71% of children are in poverty.<\/p>\n<p>These data represent a startling rise <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/education\/study-poor-children-are-now-the-majority-in-american-public-schools-in-south-west\/2013\/10\/16\/34eb4984-35bb-11e3-8a0e-4e2cf80831fc_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">since 2000<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/10\/Screenshot_128.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-57776\" alt=\"Screenshot_1\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/10\/Screenshot_128-500x557.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/10\/Screenshot_128-500x557.png 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/10\/Screenshot_128.png 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While the statistics are the worst for states in the South and the West,\u00a0the percent increase in poor children was the highest in the Midwest (up 40% since 2001, compared to 33% in the South, 31% in the West, and 21% in the Northeast). \u00a0All, of course, extraordinary increases.<\/p>\n<p><em>h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Miel_Machetes\" data-user-id=\"1583078995\">@Miel_Machetes<\/a>. \u00a0Cross-posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psmag.com\/education\/nearly-half-u-s-schoolchildren-live-low-income-households-71209\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pacific Standard<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study has discovered that 48% of the nation&#8217;s 50 million public school students are in poverty, as measured by whether they qualify for free or reduced-priced lunches. \u00a0In 17 states, the majority of schoolchildren are poor. \u00a0Poverty rates are led by Mississippi, where 71% of children are in poverty. 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