Children represent 24 percent of the population, but they comprise 34 percent<span> of all people in poverty.1 Among all children under 18 years of age, </span>45 percent<span> live in low-income families and approximately one in every five (</span>22 percent) live in poor families.
Answer:
A. East
Explanation:
There are 4 directions we use on a map: North, East, South, and West. Up and Down aren't relible directions to use if you are traveling somewhere.
Rural settlement means people living in rural areas, that is, not in the cities (which are urban areas).
Less and less people live in rural areas because there are less jobs there than in the city as our farming becomes more and more industrialized - before more people had to work on the farm, as more things had to be done by hand.