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 ...

Last year, according to a new report from the U.S. Census Bureau, child poverty in America more than doubled. This steep increase, which was accompanied by a general rise in poverty among all age ...

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 ...

Despite progress in some countries — Chad, Nepal and Peru for example — A new report from UNICEF looks at rates of "extreme hunger" among children age 5 and under. Millions of kids around the world ...

According to UNICEF, more than 400 million children globally live in poverty, missing out on at least two daily needs such as nutrition and sanitation. New report warns more children are at risk of ...

Louisiana’s child poverty rate over the past three years leads the nation, according to a new study that attributes the trend to rising costs and expiring public assistance programs. The state also ...

In 2016, the divide in Cedar Rapids between kids doing well and kids falling behind will continue to grow. For example, child poverty, including nearly half the school-age youth who are eligible for ...

When the U.S. Census Bureau released its updated Supplemental Poverty Measure on Tuesday, it showed that child poverty more than doubled from 2021 to 2022. Record inflation was a major reason but ...

It's time for a new direction in public policy, one that assists families in crisis work their way from poverty to the American dream of peace and prosperity. Decades of failed policy that discourages ...