State Policies Can Promote Immigrant Children’s Economic Security


 

Publication Date: October 2005

Publisher: Columbia University. National Center for Children in Poverty

Author(s): Kinsey Alden Dinan

Research Area: Population and demographics; Social conditions

Keywords: immigrant families; welfare

Type: Brief

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

While federal policies exclude many legal immigrants from key public benefits, some states have stepped in to fill the gap. States can offer critical assistance to children in low-income immigrant families by using their own funds to provide them with the supports available to native-born families.