NCJ Number
117903
Date Published
1989
Length
30 pages
Annotation
Our nation's children are growing poorer while our nation is growing richer.
Abstract
All groups of children are poorer today than they were a decade ago. White children's poverty rates increased by almost one-third. Unless our leaders act with a sense of urgency and with a significant, sustained level of investment, 3 million more American children will be poor in the year 2000. The Act for Better Child Care (ABC); Maternal and Child Health; Employment and Income; Housing and Homelessness; Childhood Nutrition Programs and the Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children; Vulnerable Children and Families; Child Care and Head Start; and Education are all discussed in relation to President Bush's plans to allocate funding in FY 1990.