From Occupy Boston on childhood poverty in Boston.

A recently released report ”points to concentrated need in Dorchester, Mattapan, and Roxbury, where 42 percent of children live in poverty, the densest cluster of childhood poverty in the state.” According to the Boston Globe (11/9/11), the study also ”finds that wealth has become more concentrated in Boston. In 2009, the top 5 percent of earners accounted for more than 25 percent of the total annual income in the city, according to the study. But the bottom 20 percent earned just 2.2 percent of the total.”

Of course the education reformers will say blaming poverty is just an excuse. Then again they've done nothing to solve it.