| A | B |
|---|
| poverty line | Federal standard of the minimum amount of money a person needs to exist |
| literacy | the ability to read and write. |
| homeless | people who tend to poorly educated and improverished |
| runaways | usally junior high and middle children who decide to leave without parents permission |
| AIDS | the nation's leading killer of people between the ages of 25 and 44 |
| older than 20 years of age | most of the fathers of pregnant teen girls |
| 5000 | The average number of adolescents who take their lives a year |
| 20000 | cases of AIDS that are discovered every three months in the US |
