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Basic Facts About Low-Income Children: Birth to Age 6
Publication Date: October 2008
Publisher(s): Columbia University. National Center for Children in Poverty
Author(s): Ayana Douglas-Hall; Michelle Chau
Topic: Social conditions (Poverty and homelessness)
Keywords: child poverty
Type: Fact sheet
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
Millions of children with low-income parents find themselves without the basics, even though the majority of these parents work. NCCP's updated fact sheets track by age children in the U.S. who live in low-income families: birth to age 18; birth to age 6; and birth to age 3.