sHocKinG nEwS: Statistics on Poverty Both Predictable and Shocking

“While you would think that children would be a politically popular group to help, the poverty rate for families with children under 18 is 17.6 percent, up from 16.7 percent in 2002,” said Carol Spruill, a senior lecturing fellow and associate dean at Duke Law School. “And the rate for families with children under 6 is up another 1.3 percent this year -– to an astonishing 19.8 percent.”