Most scholarship on the subject focuses on conditions during childhood. But government support during adulthood plays the ...

Number of children who are under age 6. Number of children under age 6 who are in poverty (OPM) 4 Number of children who are under age 6 and living in households below the federal poverty ...

With a new U.S. presidential administration and Congress in office, questions are percolating about federal budget priorities ...

Children born into poverty are far more likely to remain poor in adulthood in the United States than in other wealthy countries. Why? The stickiness of poverty in the U.S. challenges the self ...

(Getty/Jemal Countess) This report accompanies the first annual update of the Child Care and Early Learning in the United States data dashboard, an interactive tool from the Center for American ...

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

President Trump has returned to the White House, and with tax season starting Monday some Americans may be wondering how the ...

That year, the Child Tax Credit provided up to $3,600 per child under six and $3,000 per child aged six to 17. For 2025, the maximum child tax credit is $2,000 per qualifying child, unchanged from ...

The 2025 tax season is officially upon us, and depending on where you live, you might be eligible for an additional, state-level child tax credit.

A handful of states have ... reducing childhood poverty. Columbia University's Center on Poverty and Social Policy found that the payments reduced the monthly rates of child poverty by nearly ...