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= Child poverty in the U.S = This subject treat only child poverty in the U.S. It's refers to a state of children living in poverty in the USA. About 15 million children in the United States live in family with incomes under the federale poverty threshold. It's 21% of all children.

Definition
The definition of child poverty is for people under the age of eighteen living in families or orphans with limited ressources, or in certain case without any ressources

According to the United Nations Children's Fund(UNICEF) "children living in poverty are those who experience deprivation of the material, spiritual and emotional resources needed to stay alive, develop and thrive, leaving them unable to enjoy their rights, achieve their full potential, and participate as full and equal members of society"

Measuring U.S. child poverty
The Census Bureau determines poverty status by using an official poverty measure (OPM) that compares pre-tax cash income against a threshold that is set at three times the cost of a minimum food diet in 1963 and adjusted for family size. Poverty is measured in the United States by comparing a person’s or family’s income to a set poverty threshold or minimum amount of income needed to cover basic needs. People whose income falls under their threshold are considered poor.

Statistics difference by race
Hispanic and black children are much more likely to live in poor families than their non-Hispanic white and Asian counterparts. In 2017, 11 percent of both non-Hispanic white and Asian children were impoverished, compared with 25 percent of Hispanic children and 29 percent of black children. In the same year, more than half of Hispanic (54 percent) and black (57 percent) children lived in low-income families. By contrast, 27 percent of Asian and of non-Hispanic white children lived in low-income families. Black children were more likely than Hispanic children to be in deep poverty (15 and 11 percent, respectively), and both were more likely to be in deep poverty than non-Hispanic white or Asian children (each at 5 percent).

Causes
Most of the time the poverty is from different factor; born in a poor family, government policies, unemployment, social services, lack of education, discrimination and disabilities affect importantly child poverty. Lack of families income or economics ressources limit children's opportunities to walk out of poverty. After the Great Recession, deindustrialization, globalization, lack of employment and segregation of poor cities help increase to isolate poor children.

Augmentation of single mothers or fathers is a important cause of poverty also welfare dependency create this situation.

Children living in households headed by single mothers were five times as likely as children living in households headed by married parents.

Effect
In developing country poverty is a condition characterised by a severe deprivation of basic human needs. Furthermore, children in poverty have a greater risk of displaying behavior and emotional problems, such as impulsiveness and difficulty getting along with peers, and family poverty is associated with higher risk for teen childbearing, less positive peer relations, and lower self-esteem.

In a long term they will have economic disadvantages, adults who had childhood poverty are more likely subject to fall below the poverty line at least once in is life.

Links

 * https://www.payingforseniorcare.com/longtermcare/federal-poverty-level.html
 * https://www.childtrends.org/indicators/children-in-poverty
 * http://www.nccp.org/topics/childpoverty.html
 * https://povertyusa.org/facts
 * https://www.childtrends.org/indicators/children-in-poverty