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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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The Roadmap is best known for its 12 evidence-based policy solutions, but did you know we track all 50 states and the District of Columbia on 20 measures of child and family health and wellbeing?
