Majority of State Children in Poverty
Today’s Birmingham News (emphasis added):
51.6 percent of all Alabama K-12 students are now classified as living in poverty - an increase of almost 1 percent from 2003-04. More troubling, the increase follows a decade-long trend of growing poverty.
51.6% of our state’s children live in poverty? And it has only gotten worse for a decade? God have mercy on us.
