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1999-04-08 09:00:00+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

From a Philadelphia Enquirer article:

A study of 199 low-income U.S. households found that about 1 in 4 contained fewer than 10 books. "We found that half of parents reported that they rarely or never read books or newspapers," says the report, by the American Academy of Pediatrics. "Over half of these households had fewer than 10 children's books; in fact, almost a quarter of these homes contained fewer than 10 books total."

How much you wanna bet they had a TV, and I'll bet within the next decade they'll have a "web surfing" tool of some sort...

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