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Jiang, Yang; Granja, Maribel R.; Koball, Heather – National Center for Children in Poverty, 2017
Among all children under 18 years in the U.S., 43 percent live in low-income families and 21 percent--approximately one in five--lives in a poor family. This means that children are overrepresented among our nation's poor; they represent 23 percent of the population but comprise 33 percent of all people in poverty. Many more children live in…
Descriptors: Low Income Students, Family Income, Poverty, Demography
Jiang, Yang; Granja, Maribel R.; Koball, Heather – National Center for Children in Poverty, 2017
Among all children under 18 years in the U.S., 43 percent live in low-income families and 21 percent--approximately one in five--lives in a poor family. This means that children are overrepresented among our nation's poor; they represent 23 percent of the population but comprise 33 percent of all people in poverty. Many more children live in…
Descriptors: Low Income Students, Family Income, Poverty, Demography
Jiang, Yang; Granja, Maribel R.; Koball, Heather – National Center for Children in Poverty, 2017
Among all children under 18 years in the U.S., 43 percent live in low-income families and 21 percent--approximately one in five--lives in a poor family. This means that children are overrepresented among our nation's poor; they represent 23 percent of the population but comprise 33 percent of all people in poverty. Many more children live in…
Descriptors: Low Income Students, Poverty, Geographic Distribution, Socioeconomic Background
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Baker, Bruce D.; Ramsey, Matthew J. – Journal of Education Finance, 2010
Over the past few decades, a handful of states have chosen to provide state financing of special education programs through a method referred to as "Census-Based" funding--an approach which involves allocated block-grant funding on an assumed basis of uniform distribution of children with disabilities across school districts. The…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Financial Support, Special Education, Census Figures
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Lichter, Daniel T.; Johnson, Kenneth M. – Rural Sociology, 2007
This paper documents changing patterns of concentrated poverty in nonmetro areas. Data from the Decennial U.S. Census Summary Files show that poverty rates--both overall and for children--declined more rapidly in nonmetro than metro counties in the 1990s. The 1990s also brought large reductions in the number of high-poverty nonmetro counties and…
Descriptors: Rural Population, Poverty, Economically Disadvantaged, Minority Groups
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Bacon, Lloyd – Social Forces, 1973
Employs the 1967 Survey of Economic Opportunity'' data to test hypotheses about differences in migration selectivity depending on the structural distance traversed in the migration process. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Geographic Distribution, Incidence, Migrants, Migration
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Aging. – 1988
The Hispanic American elderly represent an ever growing share of America's older population. This report provides statistical information about the older Hispanic American population in the following areas: (1) demography; (2) composition; (3) geographical distribution; (4) population projections; (5) income; (6) poverty, including poverty among…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Demography, Employment Level, Geographic Distribution
Rumbaut, Ruben G. – 1996
This paper seeks to make sense of the new diversity in the United States, with a focus on immigrants from Latin America and the Caribbean. Some key facts and figures about contemporary immigrants are presented, looking at their patterns of settlement and comparing their distinctive social and economic characteristics to major U.S. racial-ethnic…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Demography, Educational Attainment, Employment Level
Wilkinson, Gary H. – 1984
Demographic data based on the U.S. census of 1980 are presented and compared to data from the 1970 census. A series of charts, maps, graphs, and tables provide detailed statistical data on such things as population growth trends, population by race and age, educational achievement, number of people living alone, male and female occupations,…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Charts, Educational Attainment, Employed Women
Shelburne, Elizabeth C. – 1972
This report presents social and economic statistics for the population of the United States below the low-income level in 1971, based on the March 1972 Current Population Survey. Included are data on selected characteristics of the population below the low-income level in 1971, such as geographic distribution, race and ethnic origin, family…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Education, Employment Statistics, Ethnic Origins
Saenz, Rogelio – 1996
This paper examines the demographic and socioeconomic patterns of 7 Mexican-origin and U.S.-born subgroups living in 13 midwestern states in 1990. Mexican-born immigrants are categorized into five subgroups based on the period of U.S. entry: pre-1965, 1965-74, 1975-81, 1982-86, and 1987-90. U.S.-born Mexican Americans (as well as those born abroad…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Demography, Educational Attainment, Elementary Secondary Education
Humes, Karen; McKinnon, Jesse – 2000
This report presents data on demographic, social, and economic characteristics of Asian and Pacific Islanders in the United States. The U.S. Census Bureau collected this information in the March 1999 supplement to the Current Population Survey. Topics include: geographic distribution (most Asians and Pacific Islanders live in the West in…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Asian Americans, Educational Attainment, Family Characteristics
Gonzales, Juan L., Jr. – 1996
This paper focuses on sociological and demographic characteristics of Hispanics, particularly Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Cubans living in the United States. Sections are organized around data tables and figures (based primarily on 1990 census data), with explanatory text, and cover minority populations in the United States, Latino…
Descriptors: Cubans, Demography, Educational Attainment, Elementary Secondary Education
Riddle, Wayne Clifton – 1992
This review and comparison of census data on the distribution among states of school-age children in poor families for 1990 and 1980 explores implications in the changes for Chapter 1 funding and administration. Numbers of school-age children in poor families represent the primary factor in the allocation of most funds under the federal Elementary…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Children, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth
Banks, Vera J.; Mills, Karen M. – Current Population Reports, 1983
According to estimates prepared by the Bureau of the Census and the Economic Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture, the 1982 farm population of 5,620,000, or 2.4% of the national population, continued a long downward trend. About 45% of farm residents lived in the North Central region, 35% in the South, 13% in the West,…
Descriptors: Age Groups, Agricultural Personnel, Birth Rate, Census Figures