The child poverty rate in California nearly tripled from 2021 to 2024 — 7.5% to 18.6% — and is now the fourth highest in the country, according to new KIDS COUNT data from the Annie E. Casey ...

A couple of weeks ago, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) endorsed an increase in child tax credits to a maximum of $5,000 per child, declaring that “President Trump has been on record for a long time, supporting ...

The expansion of the child tax credits under the American Rescue Plan halved child poverty. When the policy ended, child poverty shot back up. This year, 11 states either created a state-level child ...

When Congress gave more families access to the child tax credit in March 2021, the expansion lifted 2.1 million children out of poverty — a result that Americans of all political persuasions should ...

In a new report, UNICEF examines the status, trends, inequities and drivers of child food poverty in early childhood — and how some countries are successfully addressing it. A mother feeds her ...

While the economy was a key topic of discussion for the two presidential candidates when they met on the debate stage for the first time on Tuesday, the duel ended without explicit consideration of ...

Each year the Census Bureau calculates what share of school-aged children in every U.S. school district live below the poverty line. New figures released last week show that Lake Oswego and Sherwood ...

The child poverty rate in the United States more than doubled between 2021 and 2022, according to new data on poverty, income, and health insurance from the U.S. Census Bureau on Sept. 12. A year ...

UNICEF works with governments and other partners to address the impacts of poverty on children and to mitigate poverty-related risks to their health, education and well-being. A look at recent and ...

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore announced $10 million in new state funding Wednesday to expand child care and fresh food businesses in underserved communities. The governor also launched a new digital ...

New research from the University of Oxford finds that more than one in five children born after 2013 experience poverty for ...

Official figures on the number of children living in poverty in the UK are expected to be revised down over concerns they have not been accurately reflecting household income. For more than 30 years, ...