NYPD and NYC City Hall Break Kids Hearts

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2. Winning the hearts and minds of a new generation

The kids wanted to express solidarity with their parents. They have as much right as anyone to leave the country a message. Their teachers, schools, and parents are impacted by the government's treatment of its citizens.

The kids are the segment of our society most likely to live in poverty. What is the statistic on that? 13,000,000 kids living below the poverty line. They are as much the 99% as anyone.

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Nearly 13 million American children live in families with incomes below the federal poverty level, which is $20,000 a year for a family of four. The number of children living in poverty increased by more than 11 percent between 2000 and 2005. There are 1.3 million more children living in poverty today than in 2000, despite indications of economic recovery and growth.

Not only are these numbers dispiriting, the official poverty measure tells only part of the story—it is increasingly viewed as a flawed metric of economic hardship (see box). Research consistently shows that, on average, families need an income of about twice the federal poverty level to make ends meet. Children living in families with incomes below this level—for 2006, $40,000 for a family of four—are referred to as low income. Thirty-nine percent of the nation’s children—more than 28 million in 2005—live in low-income families.
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http://nccp.org/publications/pub_684.html

So how is it not their issue?