Children in Immigrant Families Less Likely to Be Financially Secure - The Annie E. Casey Foundation

Children in Immigrant Families Less Likely to Be Financially Secure

Posted January 30, 2015
By the Annie E. Casey Foundation
Blog kidsinimmigrantfamilieslesssecure 2015

In 2013, 27% of chil­dren in immi­grant fam­i­lies had par­ents with­out secure employ­ment, com­pared to 32% of kids in U.S.-born fam­i­lies. Although they are more like­ly to have par­ents with full-time year-round employ­ment, kids in immi­grant fam­i­lies are more like­ly to live in low-income work­ing fam­i­lies than their U.S.-born coun­ter­parts (37% vs. 22%). Dis­crep­an­cy in income may help explain this trend. In 2013, the medi­an fam­i­ly income among immi­grant fam­i­lies with chil­dren was $49,600, com­pared to $61,600 for kids in U.S.-born families. 

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