Children
| Publication | Category | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer Than Half of WIC-Eligible Families Receive WIC Benefits The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) serves millions of low-income women, infants, and children who are at nutritional risk by providing checks or vouchers for nutritious foods, nutrition counseling, breastfeeding support… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Children, Family, Food Assistance, Poverty, Safety Net |
| Hispanic Children Least Likely to Have Health Insurance This policy brief examines health insurance coverage of Hispanic children and its relationship to their citizenship status, their parents’1 citizenship status, parents’ insurance coverage, language spoken at home, and their state’s Medicaid expansion policies.… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Children, Health Insurance, Hispanics |
| After a Parent Left Employment, One in Five Children Lost Private Insurance Parental job loss is an important trigger for a child’s loss of private health insurance.1 For example, research shows that parental loss of full-time employment doubles the odds that a child will lose private health insurance.2 Until the 1990s, substantial numbers… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Children, Employment, Health Insurance, Hispanics, Unemployment |
| Exclusionary Discipline Highest in New Hampshire’s Urban Schools Exclusionary school discipline—that is, suspension and expulsion—disproportionately affects already disadvantaged students on both the national and state levels. In New Hampshire, students attending larger urban schools, male students, students of color, students… |
New Hampshire, Vulnerable Families Research Program | Children, Education, New Hampshire, Urban |
| Child Poverty Higher and More Persistent in Rural America The negative consequences of growing up in a poor family are well known. Poor children are less likely to have timely immunizations, have lower academic achievement, are generally less engaged in school activities, and face higher delinquency rates in adolescent… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Children, Poverty, Rural |
| After Years of Decline, Private Health Insurance Rates Among Children Grew in 2014 Rates of private health insurance coverage for children increased between 2013 and 2014 for the first time since 2008, the first year in which the American Community Survey collected data on health insurance (see Figure 1). The rise corresponds with the… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Children, Health Insurance |
| 2014 Data Indicate That Four in Ten Children Live in Low-Income Families In September 2015, the Census Bureau released 2014 poverty data from the American Community Survey (ACS), the only regular source for reliably estimating child poverty in geographic areas below the state level using the official poverty measure. In this brief, we use… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Children, Poverty |
| Why Do the Children Flee? “Fleeing Gangs, Children Head to U.S. Border” New York Times July 9, 2014 In summer of 2014, headlines throughout the hemisphere called attention to an unfolding tragedy: the plight of Central Americans fleeing north to escape the violence engulfing… |
Demography, Vulnerable Families Research Program | Children, Migration |
| Federal EITC Kept 2 Percent of the Population Out of Poverty This brief documents the proportion of Americans who would have been poor absent the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), all else being equal, across 2010–2014. We examine Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) rates as well as hypothetical increases in the rates of SPM… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Children, Poverty, Safety Net, Tax |
| Although Child Poverty Declined in 2014, Persistent Racial and Ethnic Disadvantages Remain Poverty data from the American Community Survey were released on September 17, 2015, allowing a detailed examination of poverty in 2014 across the United States. These data reveal that child poverty has fallen slightly in the last year yet the longer term pattern of… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | African Americans, Children, Poverty |
