By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Part One of an ongoing series on this impactful and informative report. The child population in America is the most diverse in history, but children remain the poorest age group in the country with youth of color suffering the highest poverty rates. “While we reported on the 73 million children in the U.S. in 2019, which is 22 percent of the nation’s population, we also note that 2020 was the first year in American history that a majority of children are projected to be children of color,” said the Rev. […]
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