Family and Community

To break the cycle of poverty for D.C.’s children, we must work to strengthen families and communities.

Despite overall economic gains over the past ten years, too many children have been left behind. Median family income is up 12 percent, but the city’s child poverty rate has barely changed. In 2010, 30 percent of the city’s children were living in families with income at or below 100 percent of the federal poverty line ($22,000 for a family of four), compared to 32 percent in 2000.Follow the links below for ward-level specific data.

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