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This brief provides an up-to-date look at how pioneering states and localities are using – or plan to use – improved poverty measurement to build smarter social policy.

Parental employment, parental education, family structure and other variables each play an important role in predicting the likelihood that a child will endure economic hardship. We break down the facts and figures into five age groups of children: Under Age 3, Under Age 6, Ages 6 to 11, Ages 12 to 17, and Children Under 18.

Parental employment, parental education, family structure and other variables each play an important role in predicting the likelihood that a child will endure economic hardship. This fact sheet is part of an NCCP series that present the facts and figures broken down into five age groups: Under Age 3, Under Age 6, Ages 6 to 11, Ages 12 to 17, and Children Under 18.

Other Publications

• Basic Facts About Low-income Children
  Children Aged 6 through 11 Years, 2011
  Fact Sheet, January 2013
• Basic Facts About Low-income Children
  Children Under 6 Years, 2011
  Fact Sheet, January 2013
• Basic Facts About Low-income Children
  Children Under 3 Years, 2011
  Fact Sheet, January 2013
• Paid Family Leave
  Stengthening Families and Our Future
  Report, April 2012
• Basic Facts About Low-income Children, 2010
  Children Under Age 18
  Fact Sheet, February 2012
• Basic Facts About Low-income Children, 2010
  Children Ages 12 through 17
  Fact Sheet, February 2012
• Basic Facts About Low-income Children, 2010
  Children Ages 6 through 11
  Fact Sheet, February 2012
• Basic Facts About Low-income Children, 2010
  Children Under Age 6
  Fact Sheet, February 2012
• Basic Facts About Low-income Children, 2010
  Children Under Age 3
  Fact Sheet, February 2012
• Who Are America’s Poor Children?
  Examining Health Disparities by Race and Ethnicity
  Report, July 2011
• Poor Children by Parents’ Nativity
  What Do We Know?
  Brief, April 2011
• Healthy Kids and Strong Working Families
  Improving Economic Security for North Dakota Families with Children
  Brief, April 2011
• Who are America’s Poor Children?
  The Official Story
  Brief, March 2011
• Who Are America’s Poor Children?
  Examining Health Disparities Among Children in the United States
  Report, January 2011
• Basic Facts About Low-income Children, 2009
  Children Under Age 3
  Fact Sheet, October 2010
• Basic Facts About Low-income Children, 2009
  Children Under Age 6
  Fact Sheet, October 2010
• Basic Facts About Low-income Children, 2009
  Children Aged 6 through 11
  Fact Sheet, October 2010
• Basic Facts About Low-income Children, 2009
  Children Aged 12 through 17
  Fact Sheet, October 2010
• Basic Facts About Low-income Children, 2009
  Children Under Age 18
  Fact Sheet, October 2010
• Basic Facts About Food Insecurity Among Children in the United States, 2008
  Fact Sheet, August 2010
• Who Are America’s Poor Children?
  Examining Food Insecurity Among Children in the United States
  Report, August 2010
• English Language Proficiency, Family Economic Security, and Child Development
  Brief, June 2010
• Asset Poverty and Debt Among Families with Children
  Brief, February 2010
• Who are America’s Poor Children?
  The Official Story
  Brief, January 2010
• Child Poverty and Intergenerational Mobility
  Brief, December 2009
• Ten Important Questions About Child Poverty and Family Economic Hardship
  Brochure, December 2009
• Childhood and Intergenerational Poverty
  The Long-Term Consequences of Growing Up Poor
  Brief, November 2009
• Low-income Children in the United States
  National and State Trend Data, 1998-2008
  Report, November 2009
• Basic Facts About Low-income Children, 2008
  Children Under Age 18
  Fact Sheet, November 2009
• Basic Facts About Low-income Children, 2008
  Children Under Age 3
  Fact Sheet, November 2009
• Basic Facts About Low-income Children, 2008
  Children Under Age 6
  Fact Sheet, November 2009
• Basic Facts About Low-income Children, 2008
  Children Aged 6-11
  Fact Sheet, November 2009
• Basic Facts About Low-income Children, 2008
  Children Aged 12-17
  Fact Sheet, November 2009
• The Economic Crisis and the Health, Well-Being and Security of New York’s Children and Families
  Report of a Meeting, March 13, 2009
  Report, September 2009
• Measuring Poverty in the United States
  Fact Sheet, May 2009
• Another Milestone: 20 Years of NCCP
  2008 Annual Report
  Brochure, January 2009
• Staying Afloat in Tough Times
  What States Are and Aren't Doing to Promote Family Economic Security
  Report, August 2008
• Statement on Establishing a Modern Poverty Measure
  Statement, July 2008
• Measuring Poverty in the United States
  Fact Sheet, June 2008
• Most Low-Income Parents Are Employed
  Fact Sheet, November 2007
• Parents’ Low Education Leads to Low Income, Despite Full-Time Employment
  Fact Sheet, November 2007
• Testimony on Measuring Poverty in America
  Testimony, August 2007
• Struggling Despite Hard Work
  Illinois and Chicago
  Fact Sheet, April 2007
• The New Poverty Wars
  Debating the Frame(s)
  Opinion, April 2007
• Testimony on the Economic and Societal Costs of Poverty
  Testimony, January 2007
• Who are America’s Poor Children?
  The Official Story
  Fact Sheet, December 2006
• Struggling Despite Hard Work
  Michigan and Detroit
  Fact Sheet, November 2006
• The New Poor
  Regional Trends in Child Poverty Since 2000
  Report, August 2006
• The Racial Gap in Parental Education
  Fact Sheet, May 2006
• On the Edge in the Empire State
  New York’s Low-Income Children
  Fact Sheet, May 2006
• Children in Urban Areas are Increasingly Low Income
  Fact Sheet, November 2005
• Marriage Not Enough to Guarantee Economic Security
  Brief, October 2005
• Many Children with Married Parents are Low Income
  Fact Sheet, October 2005
• Child Poverty in States Hit by Hurricane Katrina
  Fact Sheet, September 2005
• Children of Recent Immigrants
  National and Regional Trends
  Report, December 2004
• Children of Low-Income, Recent Immigrants
  Fact Sheet, December 2004
• Rate of Children in Low-Income Families Varies Widely by State
  Fact Sheet, September 2004
• Changing Children’s Trajectories of Development
  Brief, December 2003
• Low Income and the Development of America’s Kindergartners
  Brief, November 2003
• Where Do Children in Low-Income Families Live?
  Report, November 2003
• Geography of Low-Income Families and Children
  Fact Sheet, November 2003
• Debt and Assets Among Low-Income Families
  Brief, October 2003
• How Belief in a Just World Influences Views of Public Policy
  Report, October 2003
• Low Income and Hardship Among America’s Kindergartners
  Brief, September 2003
• The Changing Demographics of Low-Income Families and Their Children
  Brief, August 2003
• Employment Alone is Not Enough for America’s Low-Income Children and Families
  Report, August 2003