Today our host Jorge Nestoro speaks with Anna Speer of the Anna E. Casey Foundation about the fact that increasingly numbers of children are living in extreme poverty in the United States. According to official statistics, in 2008, 18 % lived below below the official poverty line and now this figure has climbed to 22% . Dice Speer that this situation is especially worrisome given that today’s children of color will be the future leaders of the country. teleSUR