In This Issue
Valentine's Facts
Kids on Food Stamps
Black History
Issue: #361
March 2, 2015
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Facts for Features: Valentine's Day
2015: Feb. 14
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Happy Valentine's Day Cross
Word Puzzle
Expressing one's love to
another is a celebrated custom
on Valentine's Day.
Sweethearts and family
members present gifts to one
another, such as cards, candy,
flowers and other symbols of
affection. Opinions differ as to
who was the original
Valentine, but the most
popular theory is that he was a clergyman who was executed
for secretly marrying couples in ancient Rome. In A.D. 496,
Pope Gelasius I declared Feb. 14 as Valentine Day. Esther
Howland, a native of Massachusetts, is given credit for selling
the first mass-produced valentine cards in the 1840s. The spirit
continues today with even young children exchanging
valentine's cards with their fellow classmates.
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One in Five Children Receive Food Stamps,
Census Bureau Reports
The number of children
receiving food stamps
remains higher than it
was before the start of
the Great Recession in
2007, according to the
U.S. Census Bureau's
annual Families and
Living Arrangements
table package.
The rate of children
living with married
parents who receive
food stamps has
doubled since 2007. In
2014, an estimated 16 million children, or about one in five,
received food stamp assistance compared with the roughly 9
million children, or one in eight, that received this form of
assistance prior to the recession.
These statistics come from the 2014 Current Population
Survey's Annual Social and Economic Supplement, which has
collected statistics on families and living arrangements for
more than 60 years. Today's table package delves into the
characteristics of households, including the marital status of
the householders and their relationship to the children residing
in the household. The historical data on America's families and
living arrangements can be found on census.gov.
Other highlights:
Children
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Of the 73.7 million children under 18 in the United
States:
10 percent live with a grandparent (7.4 million).
79 percent live with at least one sibling (58.5 million).
15 percent have a stay-at-home mother (10.8 million),
and 0.6 percent have a stay-at-home father (420,000).
38 percent have at least one foreign-born parent (28.3
million).
The share of children who live with one parent only has
tripled since 1960, from about 9 percent to 27 percent.
Marriage and family
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Less than half (48 percent) of households today are
married couples, down from 76 percent in 1940.
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The median age when adults first marry continues to
rise. In 2014, it was 29 for men and 27 for women, up
from 24 and 21, respectively, in 1947.
36 percent of 30- to 34-year-olds have never been
married.
Married couples have more children in the household,
on average, than either single mothers or single
fathers.
Married couples make up the majority (72 percent) of
the 86.4 million family groups, which are defined as
two or more people who live together and are related
by birth, marriage or adoption. Unmarried mothers and
unmarried fathers make up 12 percent and 2 percent of
family groups, respectively.
24 percent of married families with children under 15
have a stay-at-home mother, and 1 percent have a stayat-home father.
Unmarried couples
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7.9 million opposite-sex unmarried couples live
together.
39 percent of opposite-sex unmarried couples have a
child under 18.
Older adults
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There are about 13 million more householders 65 or
older than there are householders under age 30. In
1960, the difference was just 2.5 million.
One quarter of all adults 65 or older are widowed;
fewer than 5 percent have never been married.
About 12.5 million older adults live alone, representing
28 percent of adults 65 or older.
Households
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The share of single-person households has more than
doubled since 1960, from 13 percent to 28 percent
(34.2 million households) today.
More than two-thirds (69 percent) of white households
own their home, compared with less than half of black
(43 percent) or Hispanic (46 percent) households.
Facts for Features Black History Month
To commemorate and celebrate the contributions to our nation
made by people of African descent, American historian Carter
G. Woodson established Black History Week. The first
celebration occurred on Feb. 12, 1926. For many years, the
second week of February was set aside for this celebration to
coincide with the birthdays of abolitionist/editor Frederick
Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. In 1976, as part of the nation's
bicentennial, the week was expanded into Black History Month.
Each year, U.S. presidents proclaim February as National
African-American History Month.
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Until Next Week,
Jan Figart
Census Information Center
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