Explain the impact of poverty on children in America.

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Children who grow up in poverty represent a special concern. In 2014, 21.1 percent of U.S. children under 18 years of age were living in families with incomes below the poverty line, with African American and Latino families with children having especially high rates of poverty (more than 30 percent). In 2014, 12.7 percent of non-Latino White children were living in poverty. Compared with non-Latino White children, ethnic minority children are more likely to experience persistent poverty over many years and to live in isolated poor neighborhoods where social supports are minimal and threats to positive development abundant. Poverty is demarcated along educational lines. In 2014, for adults 25 years and older, 29 percent of those with no high school diploma, 14 percent with a high school diploma but no college, 10 percent with some college, no degree, and 5 percent with a bachelor's degree or higher lived in poverty in the United States.
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