; purposes (a) Findings Congress finds the following: (1) Almost half, or 44 percent, of children in the United States are from low-income families. (2) Individuals caught in multigenerational poverty tend to lack the support needed to move beyond day-to-day situations, make long-term financial plans, and support the community around them. (3) Twenty-five percent of children in the United States live in single-mother households, and 80 percent of African-American or Hispanic children who live in such households are from low-income families. (4) Many of the services and systems that are intended to help low-income families are fragmented, with approaches that address the needs of parents and children separately. These fragmented approaches often leave either the parent or the child behind and dim the family's chance at success. (5) In 2009, the Department of Agriculture estimated that 11,500,000 individuals in the United States are from low-income families that reside more than 1 mile from a supermarket, and 2,300,000 of such individuals do not have access to a car. (6) Healthy communities have a variety of components, including— (A) safe, sustainable, accessible, and affordable transportation options that enable— (i) children to commute to and from school safely; and (ii) parents to seek work outside of their community; (B) housing that is affordable, high-quality, socially integrated, and location-efficient; (C) access to quality schools, parks and other recreational facilities, child care, libraries, financial services, and other daily needs; and (D) support for healthy behavioral development of children and adolescents. (7) A successful 2-generation program will— (A) improve family economic security by creating opportunities for, and addressing the needs of, parents and children; (B) break the cycle of multigenerational poverty