In 2006, approximately 22 percent of children under the age of 18 in the United States lived in poverty . The U.S. now has the highest child poverty rate in the developed world. The problem has worsened since 2001 when approximately 15 percent of all minors in the United States were living below the poverty line.
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Sources:
"U.S. Government Does Relatively Little to Lessen Child Poverty Rates" 19 Jul. 2006. Economic Policy Institute. www.epi.org/content.cfm/webfeatures_snapshots_20060719.
Williams, Brian; Sawyer, Stacey; Wahlstrom, Carl; "Marriages, Families & Intimate Relationships," Pearson, 2005.
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