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The Children’s Defense Fund State of America’s Children 2012 Report reveals disturbing statistics:• An estimated one in 45 children �" or 1.6 million �" children was homeless in America each year between 2006 and 2010, and the numbers are growing.
• Approximately 40% of those children, or 640,000, who were homeless, were five years or younger.
• From 1967 to 2010, the poverty rate for young families with children soared from 14.1% to 37.3%.
• There were over one million children and youth who were homeless enrolled in public schools during the 2010-2011 academic year.
• In 2010, one in nine children �" 16 million in total �" were in households that struggled to ensure that their children did not go to sleep or to school hungry.
• Children who are homeless are twice as likely as other children to repeat a grade in school, be expelled or suspended, or drop out of high school.
• Poverty is linked to a number of negative outcomes for children, including completing fewer years of schooling, working fewer hours and earning lower wages as adults, and a greater likelihood of reporting poor health.
Reading the statistics from the CDC report for children can be deeply troubling. As ...