Economic Report: More kids living in poor and low-income families
Submitted by Doug Cunningham on September 8, 2005 - 7:06pm
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The proportion of low-income families in the U.S. population is going up again after a decade of decline. And that means more children living in low-income families. According to the National Center for Children in Poverty, more than one-third of children in the United States live in low-income families and 17 percent live in poor families. Young children are disproportionally affected. Sixty-two percent of Latino children and 60 percent of black children live in low-income families in the U.S.
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