Mr. Piraino talks about the economy and how it is affecting our community's children. According to Indiana Youth Institute, in 2010, 22.9% of children in Montgomery County were living in poverty. 33.2% were receiving free lunches. I doubt those numbers were any lower in 2011. If anything they were probably higher.
Parents are under stress trying to provide for their families and that stress filters down to their children.
Read the entire blog here => http://blog.casaforchildren.org/blog/opinion/children-2012/ to find out what YOU can do to help our county's children.
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