LI children age 9 or younger decrease by 10 percent
Quick ReadLong Island has seen a 10 percent drop in the number of children age 9 or younger in the first decade of the 21st century.
Photo credit: John Dunn | In this file photo, Hempstead residents attend a meeting on the census. (April 9, 2010)
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Long Island has seen a 10 percent drop in the number of children age 9 or younger in the first decade of the 21st century, a decline already being felt in some school districts in Nassau and Suffolk as they look for ways to reduce classes to accommodate the smaller numbers.
The dip in the number of Long Island's youngest residents - there were an estimated 40,500 fewer in 2009 than in 2000,...
