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Profiles (Showing 6 Featured Indicators of full set)

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Children in Foster Care (2009)	7,446
Total Population in Poverty (2008)	479,140
Median Household Income (2008)	$38,820
Children in Single-Parent Families (2008)	35.6%
Tax Filers Claiming Federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) (2007)	296,415
Total Federal EITC Dollars Distributed to Low-Income Working Families (2007)	$626,956,856

Featured Data for Arkansas

Poverty

Total Population in Poverty (2008)

U.S. Census Bureau, Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE)

Estimates of total number of residents living below 100% of the federal poverty level.

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Data highlights selected by our KIDS COUNT state grantee.
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Full set of data provided by our KIDS COUNT state grantee.
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Ten important indicators of child well-being included in our annual KIDS COUNT Data Book.
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Arkansas Grantee

Arkansas Advocates for Children & Families 1400 W. Markham
Suite 306
Little Rock, AR 72201

501-371-9678
kreeve@aradvocates.org
http://www.aradvocates.org

Kim Reeve, Senior Policy Analyst

Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families is a nonprofit, child advocacy organization working to improve the opportunities available to children so they may grow to lead healthy and productive lives.

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