Camden’s rates of child poverty and well-being have improved in the past decade, though the city continued to fare worse than the state as a whole, according to a recent report released by a ...

Families aren’t failing the poverty line—the poverty line is failing them. How outdated metrics mask today’s economic reality ...

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.

Lynn Perry, chief executive of Barnardo's, shares her thoughts on Labour's child poverty strategy – and what more needs to ...

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 ...

The new child poverty strategy promises the biggest fall in child poverty in decades. Will it also deliver better health for ...

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 ...

The City of New York hit another milestone last week in its underlying ongoing crisis: poverty. This marker came in the form ...

Labour's child poverty strategy offers some welcome measures, but it won't address the factors keeping families trapped in poverty ...

Growing up in poverty can therefore impact educational outcomes and future labour market success. "Hopefully, the forthcoming investment will start to reverse this worrying trend and significantly ...

Some praised it for bringing half a million kids out of poverty but others fear it is not ambitious enough.

The findings, presented last week at the launch of the Multi-Dimensional Child Poverty Report, show that 35.7% of children ...