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This fact sheet describes the characteristics of children who are officially poor and identifies public policy strategies for improving the well-being of children and families.

Other Publications

• 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
• Low-Income Children in the United States
  National and State Trend Data, 1996-2006
  Report, September 2007
• Basic Facts About Low-Income Children
  Birth to Age 18
  Fact Sheet, September 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
• Measuring Income and Poverty in the United States
  Fact Sheet, April 2007
• Testimony on the Economic and Societal Costs of Poverty
  Testimony, January 2007
• 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
• Children of Immigrants
  A Statistical Profile
  Brief, September 2002
• The Changing Face of Child Poverty in California
  Fact Sheet, August 2002
• The Role of Community Development Corporations in Promoting the Well-Being of Young Children
  Brief, February 2002
• Untapped Potential
  State Earned Income Credits and Child Poverty Reduction
  Brief, April 2001
• Child Poverty in the States
  Levels and Trends from 1979 to 1998
  Brief, August 2000
• Lives on the Line
  American Families and the Struggle to Make Ends Meet
  Brief, August 1999
• Poverty and Brain Development in Early Childhood
  Report, June 1999
• Young Child Poverty in the States, Wide Variation and Significant Change
  Brief, July 1998