Education in States and Nations: 1991
For all countries and states, "children" are persons 17 years of age and younger.
Each country's data have been adjusted to fit the U.S. definition of poverty. A child is said to be in poverty if living in a household with an income less than 40 percent of its country's median income.
Income includes all forms of cash income plus food stamps and similar benefits in countries other than the United States. Income is adjusted using the U.S. Poverty Line Equivalence Scale. The ratio of the U.S. Poverty Line for a three person family to the adjusted median income was actually 40.7 percent in 1986. Thus, the 40 percent line is very close to the official U.S. poverty line. For further information, see Rainwater, Lee and Smeeding, Timothy M., "Doing Poorly: The Real Income of American Children in a Comparative Perspective" Working Paper No. 127, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, August, 1995. See also Smeeding, Timothy M., "Why the U.S. Antipoverty System Doesn't Work Very Well," Challenge, January-February, 1992, pp. 30-35.
Births to teen mothers
