Basic Facts About Low-income Children, 2008: Children Under Age 6.

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Autor/Urheber	Wight, Vanessa; Chau, Michelle M
Titel	Basic Facts About Low-income Children, 2008: Children Under Age 6.
Quelle	National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University (2009) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
DOI	10.7916/D8KP89WM
Schlagwörter	Poor children; Poor families; Poverty; Poverty--Measurement
Abstract	Children represent 25 percent of the population. Yet, 41 percent of all children live in low-income families and nearly one in every five live in poor families. Our very youngest children, infants and toddlers under age 3, appear to be particularly vulnerable with 44 percent living in low-income and 22 percent living in poor families. Winding up in a low-income or poor family does not happen by chance. There are significant factors related to children's experiences with economic insecurity, such as race/ethnicity and parents' education and employment. This fact sheet describes the demographic, socio-economic, and geographic characteristics of infants and toddlers and their parents — highlighting 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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