Kathleen Vail e're experiencing the greatest economic growth our nation has ever seen.
Unemployment is at an all-time low.
With this unprecedented prosperity, it's a safe bet to say our children are doing better, too, along with the rest of us. Research on children, especially young children, released this past year suggests that while progress is being made on many fronts, too many children and their families are still struggling with poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, health problems, and lack of education and support. Nationally, child poverty rates have gone down 17 percent since 1993. Unfortunately, those gains haven't offset the fact that there are now 3 million more children in poverty than there were in 1979. The percentage gains are higher among children living in poverty.