UN: 20 million Mexican children living in poverty

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The latest United Nations report on child poverty finds a staggering 600 million children worldwide living on less than a dollar a day. Over 20 million of them live in Mexico, though Mexican officials say the true number there is much smaller. Fighting child poverty is a great challenge in Mexico.
CCTV’s Martin Markovits filed this report from Mexico City.
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