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 ...

Around 1 in 5 children today are living in extreme poverty, according to new World Bank-UNICEF research. In 2024, an estimated 412 million children aged 17 or younger were residing in households ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Most of the people who showed up on Feb. 20 to mourn the passing of 2-year-old A'millah Currie and 9-year-old Darnell Currie Jr., who died in the freezing winter inside a car in a casino parking ...

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.

Child poverty in Virginia has climbed to 12%, affecting more than 230,000 children and reversing previous gains made during the pandemic, according to a new report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

How will you address child hunger? What will you do to make health care more accessible for low-income families with children? In what way would you improve the child welfare system? These are just a ...

Councils are currently only meant to house families with children in B&Bs as a last resort, and for a maximium of six weeks, ...

The policy has caused more than 1.6 million children living in affected households to be deprived of income, pushing child poverty to record highs. It has ...