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Definitions: The share of own children under age 18 living in families that met two criteria: (1) the family income was less than twice the federal poverty level; (2) at least one parent worked 50 or more weeks during the previous year, by children in foreign-born or US-born families.
Data Source: Population Reference Bureau, analysis of data from the U.S. Census Bureau, 2008 American Community Survey.
Footnotes: Updated March 2010. A 90–percent confidence interval—a range of values around each estimate—is reported for each estimate at Children in low-income working families by children in immigrant families.
Note: The District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands are not included in maps and rankings because they are not states and therefore comparisons on many indicators of child well being are not meaningful.
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