You know how you hear a statistic over and over again. You think "that's awful," and move on. Then the number hits you.
In America, one in five children lives in poverty.
Repeat daily, until it sinks in.
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Free and reduced-price breakfast and lunch long have been staples in most urban school systems. But the District [of Columbia] is going a step further in 99 of its 123 schools and reaching nearly a quarter of its total enrollment. Montgomery and Prince George's Country also offer a third meal of the day in some schools but not on the scale undertaken in the city.
The program, which will cost the school system about $5.7 million this year, comes at a time of heightened concern about childhood poverty in the city. ...Washington Post
