” … poverty is a significant and growing problem for America — one that costs our economy hundreds of billions of dollars each year, and leaves poor families and individuals with a greatly reduced chance of achieving the American Dream. Children raised in poverty today will grow up in circumstances that, the data tell us, will give them a small, if not negligible, chance of following a path that will lead them to a markedly better place than where they began.”
Read more … http://www.ets.org/s/research/pdf/poverty_and_education_report.pdf
