Child Poverty

Financial hardship in early childhood can disrupt healthy brain development and compromise the foundation for long-term learning, behavior, and health. Families living with poverty face great difficulties meeting basic needs and are more likely to experience stress, which can compromise parents’ ability to engage in the warm, responsive interactions critical to healthy development. The poverty rate varies considerably by race and ethnicity.

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Browse state-level data on child poverty and other outcome measures to track the overall health and wellbeing of infants and toddlers and their parents.

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