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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

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

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.

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 ...

Kentucky Youth Advocates release data showing nearly one in every five Kentucky children ages 6 to 17 are obese, highlighting ...

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.

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 ...

South Africa has made steady progress in reducing poverty over the past 17 years, but the country’s children remain largely ...

NOTE: This post was co-authored with members of the CUESI Lab—Lindsey Nenadal, Ph.D., Katherine Griffin, Ph.D., Taylor Hazelbaker, M.A., and Kristina Brittenham, J ...