From the National Center for Children in Poverty, this report offers key information on child poverty and family hardship in the United States. Authors offer information on the nature of poverty, how poverty is measured in the United States, and…

The Tax Policy Center, which is a joint venture of the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution, authored this fact sheet on tax policies designed to support working families with children. Specifically, the Earned Income Tax Credit, Child…

Across the country, low-income status varies significantly by race and ethnicity. Currently, 13.4 million families with children are below 200 percent of the Federal poverty level, and 30 percent are Hispanic, 22 percent are black or African…

Within low-income families, around 60 percent have an adult working fulltime. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, this Urban Institute fact sheet describes adolescent risk behaviors and the transition to adulthood for low-…