Education Week by Sean Cavanagh

The “Great Recession” and its aftermath have taken a severe toll on the nation’s children, with poverty rates among young people having increased in each of the last four years and likely to continue to climb in the near term, a recent report shows.

The nation’s child poverty rate rose from 18 percent to 22 percent from 2007 to 2010, according the the report, “The Recession’s Ongoing Impact on America’s Children: Indicators of Children’s Economic Well-Being Through 2011,” released by the Brookings Institution…

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