The Basic Facts About Children in Poverty Getty/Gregory Rec
A boy holds his little brother s hand after picking him up at the bus stop in Biddeford, Maine, April 2020.
Julia Cusick
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Introduction and summary
In America, nearly 11 million children are poor. That’s 1 in 7 kids, who make up almost one-third of all people living in poverty in this country. This number should be unimaginable in one of the world’s wealthiest countries, and yet child poverty has remained stubbornly high for decades Across the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which is made up of 37 countries including Denmark, New Zealand, Spain, and the United Kingdom, the United States is consistently rank
In the first incident, St. Louis Park man has been charged with assault on a police officer.
Derrick Deandre Bailey, 29, has been charged with fourth-degree assault on a police officer, providing a false name of a true person, obstructing the legal process with force, a separate charge of obstructing the legal process and theft.
A court document makes these allegations:
The incident began when police officers responded to a call about a theft in progress at about 9:30 a.m. Dec. 3 at Cub Foods, 3620 Texas Ave. S. Two individuals told police that a man had attempted to take merchandise out of the store and pushed his phone in the face of one of the individuals who tried to talk to him about the unpaid merchandise.