Families in Poverty
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- The median average income for all single-mother families was just $25,172 — down by more than $2,000 since 2000. The median average income for married couples with children was three times greater and, for the relatively few single-father families, nearly one and a half times greater.
- Well over a third (38.5%) of single-mother families lived below the poverty threshold. This is more than four and a half times the rate for married couples with children and also considerably higher than the rate for single-father families.
- Children forced to live in poverty worry about things other than school and their education.
- Families cannot pay for their homes, food and certain essentials needed for daily lives.