August 30, 2012
1/3 of college students indicate that financial stressors have negatively impacted their academic performance or progress. Student loan debt has increased by 511% since 1999.
Stress and anxiety caused by bullying and harassment can make it difficult for kids to learn. Fearing bullies amounts to 160,000 US children stay home from school each day.
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Almost 80% of all waste generate by a school could be recycled or composted. Discarded school lunch packaging amounts to 67lbs of waste per child each school year.
There would be a 12% drop in global poverty if all students in low-income countries left school with basic reading skills. Countries that raise literacy rates by 20-30% have seen increases in GDP of 8-16%.
Chains such as McDonald's and Burger King test their ground beef 5-10 times more often than the USDA tests beef being sent to schools.
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