A Twitter friend alerts me to this alarming statistic: 51% of public school students were eligible for federal assistance in paying for lunch in the 2012–2013 school year. Here's the Washington Post's map of the percentage of public school kids…
Posts tagged as “poverty”
Wherever Republicans may win tonight, they will likely claim a mandate to get rid of "Big Government," which translates as handouts for anyone other than their corporate pals in the military-industrial-agricultural-surveillance complex. But remember: all that "Big Government" that Republicans…
Want to know why South Dakota needs to do more to help American Indian students get into our public universities? Consider this table (click to enlarge) on the percentages of Native students from the high schools with the most Native…
Michael Woodring reads a Forbes contributor and frets that we're misusing the word poverty. The Forbes contributor grumbles that it is inaccurate to say that 15% of Americans live in poverty: The 15% number is not the number living in…
Arizona education advocate Edward F. Berger sees through the selfishness of the wealthy masquerading as education reformers and calls them to a very Christian notion of serving the community: If those who have great wealth can stop believing that because…
Student learning depends twice as much on family characteristics as on anything that happens in school. Income inequality has more to do with how well our kids do in school than standardized tests or teacher evaluations. So why does the…
I don't make a lot of money teaching in South Dakota. But at least I'm not working for big retail. According to the 2011 Wage Study by the Governor's Office of Economic Development, the average annual wage for a cashier…
I noted in yesterday's post on South Dakota's exported tax burden that, according to 2010 data, South Dakotans earned nearly the national average per capita income but paid over a third less in state and local taxes on that wealth.…