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A roadmap to reducing child poverty

Introduction -- A demographic portrait of child poverty in the United States -- Consequences of child poverty -- How the labor market, family structure, and government programs affect child poverty -- Ten policy and program approaches to reducing child poverty -- Packages of policies and programs that reduce poverty and deep poverty among children -- Other policy and program approaches to child poverty reduction -- Contextual factors that influence the effects of anti-poverty policies and programs-- Recommendations for research and data collection -- Appendixes

eBook, English, 2019
The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C., 2019