apply for financial aid, telework, or complete online homework. (23) According to the Department of Agriculture, 37,200,000 people, including 11,200,000 children, lived in food-insecure households in 2018. (24) 5,600,000 households had very low food security, defined as households in which the food intake of one or more members was reduced and eating patterns disrupted because of insufficient money and other resources for food. (25) According to a 2009 Department of Agriculture report on access to affordable and nutritious food, millions of people live in food deserts, or areas where they are more than a mile from a supermarket. (26) Reliable and affordable public transportation is critical to accessing employment, food, health care, and education. (27) The educational level attained by individuals has a dramatic impact on poverty, with 25.9 percent of adults over 25 years old without a high school diploma in poverty versus 12.7 percent for those with a high school degree, but no college, and 4.4 percent for those with a college degree. (28) According to the Government Accountability Office, socioeconomic and racial segregation in schools has increased dramatically in the past decade. (29) Low-income individuals are more likely to be targeted by child welfare services and the criminal justice system and live in communities with high rates of violence and heavy police presence. (30) Low-income parents have their children removed from the household every day, because living in poverty is incorrectly treated as child neglect. (31) The criminal justice system often punishes poverty, as court fees and fines disproportionately impact the poor. (32) Police are most likely to use deadly force in low-income, more highly segregated neighborhoods. (33) Low-income communities often have limited social capital and political voice. (34) Strict voter ID requirements, closures of polling places, limited access to alternatives to in-person voting and other voter suppression tactics disproportionately impact poor and minority