The child poverty strategy also includes making childcare more accessible for families on Universal Credit.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Housing costs on the up with number of people living in private rented sector doubled to around 320,000 ...

One in five children in the Volusia-Flagler area goes to bed hungry because they come from impoverished families. Provision ...

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

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, ...

THE Labour government of Sir Keir Starmer has chosen to leave millions of children languishing in poverty, the SNP has ...

Every day in Nebraska, a child is sexually abused. Two children are physically or emotionally abused. Eight are removed from their homes and placed in foster care. Fourteen go without the food and ...

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, ...

A new report explores the possibility of a baby bond program to help children in poverty in Maryland. The report, released ...