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Koball, Heather; Moore, Akilah; Hernandez, Jennifer – National Center for Children in Poverty, 2021
Among all children under 18 years in the United States, 38 percent live in low-income families and 17 percent--approximately one in five--are poor. This means that children are overrepresented among the nation's poor; they represent 23 percent of the population but comprise 32 percent of all people in poverty. Many more children live in families…
Descriptors: Low Income Groups, Poverty, Race, Ethnicity