Columbia: Out of all age groups, children are still most likely to live in poverty, according to new research from the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.
Using the latest available data from the American Community Survey,
NCCP researchers found that in 2015, while 30 percent of adults have low
incomes, more than 40 percent of all children live in low-income
families — including 5.2 million infants and toddlers under 3. Despite
significant gains in household income and reductions in the overall
poverty rate in recent years, 43 percent (30.6 million) of America’s
children are living in families barely able to afford their most basic
needs, according to
Basic Facts about Low-Income Children, the center’s annual series of profiles on child poverty in America.
