“Rates of poverty for Black kids in Kentucky continue to be at an unacceptable disproportionate rate in every corner of the ...

Mar. 11—The United States has its share of problems for which solutions seem hard to find. Child poverty isn't one of them. It took just one policy — the expansion of the child tax credit during the ...

At the height of the recession in 2012, nearly one in four American children were living in poverty. Today, five years after America went through the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, ...

Kentucky Youth Advocates released the 2025 Kentucky KIDS COUNT Data Dashboard today, featuring county-level data on child ...

St. Louis is a poor city. Its school district serves a higher share of children living in poverty than 95% of communities nationwide. Decades of research has shown that growing up in poverty hurts ...

What do twenty pounds of bricks feel like? Would it be easier to carry them on your back or your head? At what age would a child be allowed to work in a brickyard? For second-grader Emily Salibian, ...

Generous anti-poverty programs may help narrow gaps in mental health and brain development between children living in low- versus high-income households, a new study finds. The analysis, published in ...

The number of children in poverty rose by 979,000 from 2022 to 2023, Census Bureau data shows. The rise in child poverty comes as families still grapple with life without an enhanced child tax credit.

A popular blogger says the real poverty line for a family of four is around $140,000. There has been pushback.

Through my research on racism, stress, and cognition, I have developed concerns about how Black Americans are mishandled and neglected in our country beginning from childhood. I use the terms ...

Child poverty has reached a record high in the United Kingdom as the country’s cost of living soars and its social security safety net falters following years of government austerity.