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To find comparable information for young children, see Basic Facts about Low-Income Children: Children under 9 years, 2016. For more recent fact sheets, please click here. Among all children under 18 years in the U.S., 41 percent are low-income children and 19 percent—approximately one in five—are poor. This means that children are overrepresented among our […]

To find comparable information for infants and toddlers, see Basic Facts about Low-Income Children: Children under 3 Years, 2015; for young children, see Basic Facts about Low–Income Children: Children under 6 Years, 2015; for children in middle childhood, see Basic Facts about Low-Income Children: Children 6 through 11 Years, 2015; for adolescent children, see Basic […]

To find comparable information for all children, see Basic Facts about Low-Income Children: Children under 18 Years, 2015; for young children, see Basic Facts about Low-Income Children: Children under 6 Years, 2015; for children in middle childhood, see Basic Facts about Low-Income Children: Children 6 through 11 Years, 2015; for adolescent children, see Basic Facts […]

To find comparable information for all children, see Basic Facts about Low-Income Children: Children under 18 Years, 2015; for infants and toddlers, see Basic Facts about Low–Income Children: Children under 3 Years, 2015; for young children, see Basic Facts about Low-Income Children: Children under 6 Years, 2015; for adolescent children, see Basic Facts about Low-Income […]

To find comparable information for all children, see Basic Facts about Low-Income Children: Children under 18 Years, 2015; for infants and toddlers, see Basic Facts about Low-Income Children: Children under 3 Years, 2015; for children in middle childhood, see Basic Facts about Low-Income Children: Children 6 through 11 Years, 2015; for adolescent children, see Basic […]

To find comparable information for all children, see Basic Facts about Low-Income Children: Children under 18 Years, 2015; for infants and toddlers, see Basic Facts about Low–Income Children: Children under 3 Years, 2015; for young children, see Basic Facts about Low-Income Children: Children under 6 Years, 2015; for children in middle childhood, see Basic Facts […]

To find comparable information for all children, see Basic Facts about Low-Income Children: Children under 18 Years, 2014; for young children, see Basic Facts about Low-Income Children: Children under 6 Years, 2014; for children in middle childhood, see Basic Facts about Low-Income Children: Children 6 through 11 Years, 2014; for adolescent children, see Basic Facts […]

To find comparable information for all children, see Basic Facts about Low-Income Children: Children under 18 Years, 2014; for infants and toddlers, see Basic Facts about Low-Income Children: Children under 3 Years, 2014; for young children, see Basic Facts about Low-Income Children: Children under 6 Years, 2014; for adolescent children, see Basic Facts about Low-Income […]

To find comparable information for infants and toddlers, see Basic Facts about Low-Income Children: Children under 3 Years, 2014; for young children, see Basic Facts about Low-Income Children: Children under 6 Years, 2014; for children in middle childhood, see Basic Facts about Low-Income Children: Children 6 through 11 Years, 2014; for adolescent children, see Basic […]

To find comparable information for all children, see Basic Facts about Low-Income Children: Children under 18 Years, 2014; for infants and toddlers, see Basic Facts about Low-Income Children: Children under 3 Years, 2014; for young children, see Basic Facts about Low-Income Children: Children under 6 Years, 2014; for children in middle childhood, see Basic Facts […]