Schools Health Experts Warn of Hunger

mcclatchydc.com — School nurse Carolyn Duff told a Senate committee that she sees signs of the financial downturn every day in the kids she treats. "More and more of the working poor are entering the ranks of unemployed, impoverished and homeless families," Duff testified before the Senate Agriculture Committee. Duff and other child-health experts said the recession is accelerating a disturbing trend in which more kids have early diabetes, hypertension and other health problems previously confined to adults.

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