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Children in families that receive public assistance in United States

Children in families that receive public assistance

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Note: Non-consecutive years appear adjacent in the trend line
because one or more years have been deselected.

Definition and Source

PROVIDER

Definition

Children under age 18 in families that receive Supplemental Security Income (SSI), cash public assistance income, or Food Stamps/SNAP in the previous 12 months.

Data Source

PRB analysis of data from the U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey table B09010.

Notes

S - Estimates suppressed when the confidence interval around the percentage is greater than or equal to 10 percentage points.

N.A. – Data not available.

A 90 percent confidence interval for each estimate can be found at Children in families that receive public assistance.

Last Updated

November 2023