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The State of America's Children 2005 (HTML)
By Children's Defense Fund , Ed.
2005

Summary: This report by the Children’s Defense Fund describes the state of America’s children in 2005. The report includes the following chapters: (1) “Family Income and Jobs: Raising Children Out of Poverty”; (2) “Child Health: Fighting Poverty and Poor Health”; (3) “Early Childhood: Critical Years, Critical Investments”; (4) “Education: The Path Out of Poverty”; (5) “Child Welfare: Poverty and Families in Crisis”; and (6) “Youth Development: Poverty and the Pipeline to Prison.” There were 13 million poor children living in America in 2004. For every five children who have fallen into poverty since 2000, more than three fell into “extreme poverty,” a term describing families living at less than one-half of the poverty level. More than seven out of every ten poor children in 2004 lived in a family with at least one employed relative. Working hard and playing by the rules is not enough to lift families out of poverty. Data indicate that low-income working families whose children would benefit the most from quality child care are those least able to afford it. In 2004, just one in seven of the 15 million children eligible for Federal child care assistance actually received it. More than three million children eligible for Head Start and Early Head Start were not served.

Index Terms: Child Welfare, Demographics, Early Childhood Education, Health Care Access, Low Income Families, CCDF (Child Care And Development Fund), Educational Quality, Intervention, Welfare Reform

Publication Type: Reports (Research/technical)

Pages: 217 pages
Language: English
URL: http://www.childrensdefense.org/site/DocServer/Greenbook_2005.pdf?docID=1741

Availability
Children's Defense Fund
25 E Street NW
Washington, District of Columbia 20001
202-628-8787
cdfinfo@childrensdefense.org
http://www.childrensdefense.org/

 
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