Immigrant Parents: Working Hard but Earning Little, Few Supports

While nearly 4 million immigrant families in the United States are low income, virtually all of them have working parents, and 72 percent have a parent who works full-time, year round. A new National Center for Children in Poverty series shows these children have scant access to important government supports. When these families do have the same access to benefits as their non-foreign-born counterparts, they are more likely to be stable and secure.