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Profiles (Showing 6 Featured Indicators of full set)

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Number of children 0-18 below in households with incomes below the poverty level (2009)	258,848
Percent of children 0-18 in household with incomes below the poverty level (2009)	24.4%
Percent of Children below 200% of Poverty Level (2009)	48.6%
Percent of White Children below 200% of Poverty Level (2009)	33.4%
Percent of African American Children below 200% of Povery Level (2009)	71.2%
Percent of Hispanic Children below 200% of Poverty Level (2009)	69.2%

Featured Data for South Carolina

Poverty

Percent of children 0-18 in households with incomes below the poverty level (2009)

U.S. Bureau of the Census

Poverty Thresholds - The income cutoffs used by the Census Bureau to determine the poverty status of families and unrelated individuals include a set of 48 thresholds arranged in a two dimensional matrix consisting of family size (from one person to nine or more persons) cross-classified by presence and number of family members under 18 years old (from no children present to 8 or more children present). The total income of each family or unrelated individual in the sample was tested against the appropriate poverty threshold to determine the poverty status of that family or unrelated individual.
The data for years 1995-2009 is from county tables with estimates created by SAIPE: "Under age 18 in poverty".

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South Carolina Grantee

SC State Budget and Control Board S.C. Budget and Control Board/ORS
1919 Blanding Street
Columbia, SC 29201

803-898-9928
baron.holmes@ors.sc.gov
http://www.sckidscount.org

Dr. Baron Holmes, Director

In South Carolina, Kids Count is administered by the South Carolina Budget and Control Board/Office or Research and Statistics in collaboration with the Children's Trust Fund and many partners committed to the children in our state.

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