,Basic Facts About Low-Income Children: Birth to Age 18

Basic Facts About Low-Income Children: Birth to Age 18


 

Publication Date: October 2008

Publisher: Columbia University. National Center for Children in Poverty

Author(s): Ayana Douglas-Hall; Michelle Chau

Research Area: Social conditions

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.