Child Poverty

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• The Changing Demographics of Low-Income Families and Their Children

• Poverty in the United States: 2002  (P60-222)

• 2000 Green Book, APPENDIX H. DATA ON POVERTY Text , pdf

• Child Poverty in the States: Levels and Trends from 1979 to 1998 

• Poverty Trends for Families Headed by Working Single Mothers CBPP

• Poverty Among Children and the Elderly in Developing Countries (1999)  
  by Neil G. Bennett and Hsien-Hen Lu

• The Changing Demographics of Low-Income Families and Their Children

• Children and Poverty Volume 7 - Number 2 - Summer/Fall 1997
• KIDS COUNT 2000 - Summary - Percent of Children in Poverty  (Kids Count)
• Low Income and Hardship Among America's Kindergartners
• Low-Income Children in the United States (2003)  (National Center for Children in Poverty)
• Early Childhood Poverty: A Statistical Profile (2002)   (National Center for Children in Poverty)
• Number of Black Children in Extreme Poverty Hits Record High  
• Economic Restructuring and The Retreat From Marriage
  by Daniel T. Lichter, Diane K. McLaughlin, and David C. Ribar (June 2000)  
• Poverty in the United States- 2000 (from U.S. Census Bureau)
• Educational Inequality by Yoshiaki Azuma and Herschel I. Grossman (March 2001)  
• Helping Disconnected Youth by Improving Linkages Between High Schools and Careers
  by Robert I. Lerman
• Living at the Edge [series]
• Employment Alone is Not Enough for America's Low-Income Children and Families
• Improving Student Performance in the Inner City
  from Policy and Research Report (Vol.26 No.1) Spring 1996
• Public Attitudes Toward Low-Income Families and Children [series]
• Child Poverty Research Brief (National Center for Children in Poverty)
• Low Income Uninsured Children by State