Growing up in North America : Grandir en Amérique du nord : le bien-être économique des enfants au Canada, aux États-Unis et au Mexique

GROWING UP IN NORTH AMERICA: THE ECONOMIC WELL-BEING The Children in North America Project aims to high- OF CHILDREN IN CANADA, THE UNITED STATES, AND MEXICO light the conditions and well-being of children and youth in Canada, Mexico, and the United States. [...] The report also examines the determinants of children’s economic well-being in Canada, the United States, and Mexico, using indicators related to social and demographic trends, to labor markets and family income, and to the scope of public resources available to improve the economic security of families with children. [...] Even as the national economies recovered from economic crises in the early and mid-1990s and levels of child poverty started to fall, families at the top of the income ladder continued to pull away from the rest and incomes at the bottom stagnated or fell as was the case in Mexico. [...] While the level and depth of poverty in the United INCOME FAMILIES IS A States and Canada curtails the life chances of millions of children—and while pockets of acute DEFINING FEATURE OF poverty exist in these two countries—the challenge of child poverty in Mexico is on a different scale. [...] Much of the work on the distribution of goods and services has focused on the definition and A SIGNIFICANT impact of material deprivation and hardship at the bottom of the income scale.