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Children in Poverty In 2006, 17 percent of children lived in families with incomes below the poverty line-a percentage that has not changed since 2003...> View Indicator Health Care Coverage The percentage of all children under age 18 with private health insurance coverage decreased from 71 percent in 2000 to 66 percent in 2003. During the same time period, the percentage of children with Medicaid increased from 20 percent to 26 percent...> View Indicator Long-Term Poverty One out of every five black children ages 0-5 lived in poverty for at least nine years between 1987-1996.... > View Indicator Children in Working Poor Familes The proportion of poor children whose parents make a substantial work effort decreased from 43 percent in 2000 to 40 percent in 2001. This is a reversal of trends during the most recent era of welfare reform when the percentage of poor children in working families rose from 32 percent in 1996 to 43 percent in 2000... > View Indicator Child Support Receipt Among custodial parents with a child support award, the percentage who received a full payment of all support owed them in the previous year increased from 37 percent in 1994 to 46 percent in 1998, and was 45 percent in 2003... > View Indicator
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