When the COVID pandemic cast its dark cloud over the United States, there was an unexpected silver lining: Child poverty was all but wiped out. Sadly, though, that great achievement didn't last.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The number of children in poverty rose by 979,000 from 2022 to 2023, Census Bureau data shows. The rise in child poverty comes as ...

Poverty among Black children in the United States dropped nearly half from 2020 to 2021, following the expansion of the child tax credit, according to U.S. Census Bureau supplemental poverty measure ...

The child poverty rate in the United States more than doubled between 2021 and 2022, according to new data on poverty, income, and health insurance from the U.S. Census Bureau on Sept. 12. A year ...

Did you know that nearly half of the 44 million Americans that are on food stamps today are children? Did you know that more than a fifth of all U.S. children are living in poverty and that a fourth ...

Generous anti-poverty programs may help narrow gaps in mental health and brain development between children living in low- versus high-income households, a new study finds. The analysis, published in ...

Why does child abuse happen? A new public service announcement says most people think it’s a “bad parent problem,” but the ad suggests “the root causes may be different than you think.” This message ...

I can’t afford to properly feed my children. It’s a bitter feeling when all we have at the end of the month is bread and butter … It tears you apart. I feel like I’m not doing justice to anyone, not ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — The Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth has released its “State of the Child in Tennessee 2023” report, which provides annual information on how children, young people ...

The number of children in poverty rose by 979,000 from 2022 to 2023, Census Bureau data shows. The rise in child poverty comes as families still grapple with life without an enhanced child tax credit.