Black Americans are much more likely than white Americans to experience childhood poverty, but the white children who do grow up poor are just as likely to be poor in adulthood. We were also ...

Articles about America’s high levels of child poverty are a media evergreen. Here’s a typical entry, courtesy of the New York Times’s Eduardo Porter: “The percentage of children who are ...

Percentage of children under age 3 in poverty who are served by Early Head Start (EHS). Uses cumulative enrollment numbers and includes both EHS and American Indian and Alaska Native EHS (AIAN EHS).

far too many more children are surrounded by silence. The silence of poverty is deafening. For the 15 million children living in poverty, playtime and early learning activities like reading, singing, ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Vice President Kamala Harris participated in a ...

had a profound effect on the well-being of America’s poor, especially when it came to reducing child poverty.... The expanded child tax credit, which was in place for the second half of 2021 ...

The idea of the poverty line dates back to 1963, when Mollie Orshansky, a statistician for the Social Security Administration ...

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore highlights significant investments in the ENOUGH Act, a state-led initiative to end child poverty, ...

For November's focus on Poverty in America, Microsoft News is supporting the work of the following organizations for their proven ability to address the needs of those living in poverty ...

This dramatic reduction highlights the credit’s effectiveness in addressing child poverty, and reflected significant declines in Black, Hispanic, Asian and Native American child poverty rates.