Basic Facts about Low-income Children, Children 12 through 17 Years, 2013.

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Autor/Urheber	Jiang, Yang; Ekono, Mercedes M; Skinner, Curtis
Titel	Basic Facts about Low-income Children, Children 12 through 17 Years, 2013.
Quelle	National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University (2015) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
DOI	10.7916/D87W6B11
Schlagwörter	Poor children; Teenagers; Poor families; Poverty; Poverty--Measurement
Abstract	Children under 18 years represent 23 percent of the population, but they comprise 33 percent of all people in poverty. Among all children, 44 percent live in low-income families and approximately one in every five (22 percent) live in poor families. Among our oldest children – adolescents age 12 through 17 years – 41 percent live in low-income families and 19 percent live in poor families. Being a child in a low-income or poor family does not happen by chance. Parental education and employment, race/ethnicity, and other factors are associated with children experiencing economic insecurity. This fact sheet describes the demographic, socio-economic, and geographic characteristics of adolescents and their parents. It highlights the important factors that appear to distinguish low-income and poor children in this age group from their less disadvantaged counterparts.
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