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According to Need wins duPont-Columbia Award

99% Invisible

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Homeless Kids

Homeless kids test scores are below even other low income students who are stably housed. Data from public schools in 20 17, 20 18 showed that only 20 nper cent of homeless students were proficient in reading and they were similarly behind in math. It isn't just poverty that makes them slip; it's instability.

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