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Cook, John T.; Brown, J. Larry – 1993
Data on child poverty from the past 30 years are used to project future trends. A national-level analysis of child poverty over the past 3 decades for all children under 18 years old shows that the number of U.S. children in poverty increased by approximately 1 million from 1980 to 1988; and approximately 2.2 million more U.S. children fell into…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Children, Comparative Analysis, Demography