The number of children living in low-income families is quite large. In addition

to the five million children under six whose families were officially poor in 1987,

another 2.7 million lived in "near poor" families, with incomes between 100 percent and

150 percent of the poverty line. Many of these families have as much difficulty as

officially poor families purchasing food, shelter, and medicare, and other needed goods

and services. Some have even more difficulty making ends meet because of there

ineligibility for various forms of noncash assistance available to the poor, or because they

are unaware that such assistance is available. It is often hard also to distinguish between

children living near poverty, and children living in poverty. In the boo

entirely. In, contrast, only 2 percent of children who spent all of these years in a married-

percent of adjusted household income on rent. In 1985, when about 60 percent of al poor

million in 1979 to 5.4 million in 1987. As of 1988, fewer than one in three poor renter

couple family were poor for seven or more years, and 80 percent never experienced

marriage who grow up with single mothers are likely to be poor for most of their

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