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 ...

More than 9 million children — about 13% — are living in poverty in the U.S., according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Based on a report analyzing that data, published by the Annie E. Casey ...

The child poverty rate has hit a five-year high in America as families continue to deal with high prices for groceries and housing. That rate surged from 12.4 percent in 2022 to 13.7 percent in 2023, ...

In a new report, UNICEF examines the status, trends, inequities and drivers of child food poverty in early childhood — and how some countries are successfully addressing it. A mother feeds her ...

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 ...

In spite of America's claim to be a place where all people are free and equal, the amount of economic mobility that people can achieve is relatively small. According to a recent article in The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation shows a concerning rise in child poverty in Hawaii, and forecasts it potentially ...

Around 1 in 5 children today are living in extreme poverty, according to new World Bank-UNICEF research. In 2024, an estimated 412 million children aged 17 or younger were residing in households ...

Much of the world doesn’t have a clue what to do about child poverty, or even when to do it. In the UK the Labour government recently delayed its flagship policy on tackling the issue until the autumn ...

Fifty-seven years ago, President Lyndon Johnson declared a war on poverty. Depending on your ideological perspective, the 30 ...

Between 2023 and 2024, the percentage of children at risk of poverty or social exclusion in the EU slightly decreased from 24.8% to 24.2%. At the country level, Bulgaria reported the highest rates in ...