190.8 - Everything You Need to Know: about the state of the economy in one sentence

Everything You Need to Know: about the state of the economy in one sentence

Finally for this week, an episode of one of our occasional features, Everything you Need to Know, where you can learn a great deal about something in a very short time.

In this case, in the wake of the happy talk in the State of the Union address, it's Everything you Need to Know about the state of the real economy, the one most of us live in, in just one sentence:

According to a new analysis from the Southern Education Foundation, for the first time, more than half of US public school students live in low-income households.

And that is Everything you Need to Know.

Sources cited in links:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/16/southern-education-foundation-children-poverty_n_6489970.html