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The Hechinger Report, August 8, 2016: Pop-ups bring preschool to low-income communities

"Of the more than 200,000 children ages 5 and younger in Silicon Valley, some 50,000 live in low-income families, according to a 2016 analysis by the Urban Institute. Nationally, the figure is close to 11 million children age 6 and younger classified as 'low-income.' That’s an income of less than twice the federal poverty level, which, in 2015, was $24,036 for a family of four with two children under 18."