Children in Poverty: By the Numbers
“The children in Growing Up Poor in America were already dealing with difficult family circumstances when the coronavirus began spreading across the United States. Thirteen-year-old Shawn and his mom watched from their trailer home as Ohio’s governor described the threat in a March news conference: “We have not faced an enemy like we are facing today in 102 years… I don’t know any other way to describe it other than to say we are at war.”