Report: Five Facts About Low-Income Latino Families

*An interesting picture of Latino families: U.S. born vs foreign born. Poor immigrant families have more family stability. VL

By Sandra Lilley, NBC News

Since two-thirds of U.S. Latino children live in low-income households and about one-third live in poverty, a new report by the National Research Center On Hispanic Children and Families provides a crucial snapshot of these families. The findings point to 2 important things to keep in mind as groups or agencies work to serve and help low-income Hispanics.

“One is that family structure can look so different by nativity status,” said senior research scientist Elizabeth Wildsmith in a phone interview with NBC News. In other words, there is significant variation in how households are formed depending on whether parents were U.S.-born or foreign-born, Wildsmith noted.

Another important takeaway is that the “vast majority” of low-income Latino children, especially those born to foreign-born parents, are born into two-parent households.

Here are some of the findings:

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