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Mar 25 2009, Lorelle VanFossen

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FILE - In this Jan. 15, 2007 file photo City Year Corps member Leon McClain, right, helps assemble emergency preparedness backpack kits at Martin Luther King High School in Philadelphia. An analysis of federal data released Thursday, April 22, 2009,...