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 ...

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, ...

Hygiene poverty is a growing problem in schools. Four in five (82%) state school teachers find it difficult to raise the ...

In the 1990s, Congress created HOPE VI, a program that demolished old public housing projects and replaced them with more up-to-date ones. But the program went further than just improving public ...

Low-income children and families would be among the groups hit hardest by Republicans' One Big Beautiful Bill Act. While the bill would be a boon to wealthy Americans, it would scale back resources ...

Tommy Conway is supporting charity Zarach, which aims to end child bed poverty.

Most nights, Guillermina Garcia Zarate, 40, does well if she cobbles together even three hours of sleep. In the wee hours she finds herself tossing and turning, her mind a beehive of worry: Will she ...

Over four million children will still be living in poverty by 2029, the government’s own analysis has forecast, marking a reduction of just 10 per cent from the current figure.