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Lino, Mark – Rural America, 2002
From 1960 to 2000, total expenses to rear a rural child to age 18 increased in real terms. Food expenses decreased, but child care and educational expenses increased more. Details are presented on child-rearing expenditures by low-, middle-, and higher-income rural and urban families on housing, food, transportation, clothing, health care, child…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Cost Estimates, Expenditures, Family Income
