Poor kids in the US are likely to become poor adults. More government support during adulthood could change that.

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

Monday’s amicus brief was spearheaded by Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird and joined by the Republican AGs of 17 other ...

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 ...

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz visited a St. Paul community center on Tuesday morning to urge families to claim the child tax credit ...

In his 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. condemned the poverty hindering Black Americans' rights and decades later, a new report found children of color still bear the weight of ...

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).

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 ...

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine's newly proposed child tax credit, which would give Ohio families up to $1,000 in tax refunds per child under seven years old, would cost Ohio about $450 million per year, the ...

And approximately half (49.2%) of all American children between the ages of 1 and 20 will at some point reside in a household that receives food stamps. The poverty rate in the City of Rockford is ...