Quick Facts
Young adult couples report some type of relationship violence
Check out Child Trends' research brief, Relationship Violence Among Young Adult Couples, for a description of the study.
40,000Income withholding orders sent to employers electronically every month
A number that’s rising as more states and employers join the electronic exchange and see cost savings and, most importantly, increased collections.
Rescue & Restore
Number of people in modern-day slavery across the world, per ILO. Help ORR's Rescue & Restore Campaign raise awareness of Human Trafficking.
- More than 30 percent
of children cared for with CCDF funds are school-age. Learn more about the Child Care and Development Fund.
- 969,100
families per month received child care assistance in FY 2011. Learn more about the Child Care and Development Fund.
- More than 513,500
child care providers received CCDF funds in FY 2011. Learn more about the Child Care and Development Fund
15%Overall poverty rate in 2011
That's 46.2 million people—statistically unchanged from 15.1 percent in 2010. The poverty rate of children living in single female-headed families was 47.6 percent, over four times the rate of children in married-couple families (10.9 percent). See the Census report.
- 1 in 3
Today, nearly one in three children in America are overweight or obese.
percent of median income for a two-parent family exceeded by annual cost of center-based infant care
In 40 states and the District of Columbia, the average annual cost of center-based infant care exceeded 10 percent of the state’s median income for a