I can think of a way to drastically increase or reduce that number: Just change the dollar threshold that makes one “poor”.
To me, if you live in a home where you have your own bed and the floors are not dirt, you’re not poor.
But, on the other hand, 9% of households in Connecticut have an income over $200K.
Qhestion number one:
Could you please define “poor”?
YET we spend more money per student than ever before. WE (taxpayers) buy them computers, ipads, pay for useless administrators and teachers, common core, so much junk, and they still can’t teach students to spell their names.
AND YET somehow importing the poorest and illiterate in this hemisphere will fix all the problems.
America’s progressives are really making advancements in bringing everyone into their camp
Someone should do survey on how many of those same poor children are wearing $150 a pair Jordan sneakers.
Well, better raise taxes!
Well nothing left to do now for the students except to vote ‘DemoRat for their free education. That cheap healthcare worked out so splendid for them so why not....pay up suckas.
I assume Conn gives out approx $100/person/month in food stamps.
Plus free school grub for the critters at breakfast and lunch.
And if Connecticut’s poor look like Indiana’s poor, most appear quite well fed.
Connecticut is a bad state to choose for these numbers, as it has an unusually high number of private and parochial school students. Many parents of little more than modest means manage to send their kids to parochial school. My folks were middle class, and with a scholarship I went to a private prep school. Homeschooling regs are also MUCH more relaxed in CT than in neighboring RI and MA, with Rhode Island requiring lesson plans be submitted to the Revolutionary Committee on Public Saffety or some such.
Children are only “poor” when there is a dysfunction in the family. The bulletin should have focused on how many kids have dysfunctional families rather than on a vague definition of political buzzword “poor”.
Define “poverty”.
Taxed to death, the rest are wetbacks.