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Low income and hardship among America's kindergartners [1]

Living at the edge research brief no. 3
Author: 
Gershoff, Elizabeth
Source: 
National Center for Children in Poverty [2]
Format: 
Report
Publication Date: 
1 Sep 2003
AVAILABILITY

Available in print for order (see SOURCE) and online for download.

- Abstract in html [3]
- Full report in pdf [4]

Most of the families with incomes between 100-200 percent of the federal poverty level include at least one full-time working parent and even so continue to experience hardship, underscoring the importance of work supports such as child care subsidies. At least one in eight low-income families still cannot obtain health insurance for their children, have not taken their child to a dentist in the last year, and have moved three or more times in the child’s life.

Region: 
United States [5]
Tags: 
economics [6]
poverty [7]
funding [8]

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[1] https://childcarecanada.org/documents/research-policy-practice/03/10/low-income-and-hardship-among-americas-kindergartners [2] http://www.nccp.org/ [3] http://www.nccp.org/pub_lat03c.html [4] http://www.nccp.org/media/lat03c-text.pdf [5] https://childcarecanada.org/taxonomy/term/7865 [6] https://childcarecanada.org/category/tags/economics [7] https://childcarecanada.org/category/tags/poverty [8] https://childcarecanada.org/category/tags/funding