Syracuse ranked number one for highest child poverty in the nation

[Jilly_in_VA]

3. Wow

It was bad even when my parents lived there 50+ years ago. My mom went to a sort of inner-city church and was a reading tutor in their after-school program--I found out from someone else that she was much loved and the kids called her "Miss Lizabeth". She would tell me things that some of them told her and I would just shake my head. She'd come up in southwest Missouri during the depression so it was not quite as foreign to her, but to me it was another world.