Poverty facts:
In 2003 17% (12,866,000) of US children under the age of 18 lived in poverty. As of 2008, 19% of US children live in poverty.
Poor children are much more likely to suffer developmental delays.
Poverty prone children are more likely to live in single parent families. Median wadges for all females regardless of education are 30 to 50% lower than males wadges at the same level.
Poor inner city youth are seven times more likely to be the victims of abuse or neglect than are children of high social end economic status.
The US child poverty rate is two to three times higher than that of most other major Western industrialized nations.
Poverty is caused by interrelated factors: parental employment, education, status, earnings, and family structure.
