Locked into poverty

"In 2014, 47 million people lived in poverty in the USA. That means the poverty rate for 2014 was 15%. IN 2014, 21% of all children (15.5 million kids) lived in poverty in the USA - that's about 1 in every 5 children. In 2012, the National Center on Family Homelessness analyzed state-level data and found that nationwide, 1.6 million children experience homelessness in a year."