Out of all age groups, children are still most likely to live in poverty. Latest data show that while 30 percent of adults have low incomes, more than 40 percent of all children live in low-income ...

In contrast to the environment for poor white children, few places in America provided poor Black children born in 1978 much opportunity for advancement. Kent County, Mich., ...

Poor children have many needs, but research shows that money may matter most. ... The Other America, called attention to America’s general poverty rate of about 25% in 1962, ...

Texas was tied with Alaska as the states with the fifth-highest share of food-insecure children. That's nearly 1.7 million ...

Catch up fast: The number of U.S. children living in poverty dropped by almost 3 million in 2021, per the supplemental child poverty rate, which takes into account not only household cash income ...

The U.S. child poverty rate more than doubled from 2021 to 2022. This was a policy choice. The U.S. Census Bureau found that child poverty rapidly dropped between 2020 and 2021 because of the ...

BOB: True, but who is poor in America has changed since 1964. The poverty rate among the nation's elderly has dropped from 35% to 10% between 1960 and 1995, according to the National Bureau of ...

America has long tolerated an anomalously high rate of poverty among children relative to other advanced countries—depending on how it is measured, somewhere between one in six or one in five ...

In Poor Kids, filmmaker Jezza Neumann lets America’s poor children speak for themselves, creating an unforgettable portrait of the recession’s human impact.

For example, a family with two adults and two children under 18 whose total income is $22,811 is not poor. ... (OPM) doesn’t paint a complete picture of poverty in America.

Despite improvements across America for poor black children, there is still no county where their outcomes match those of poor white ones. Yet the decline of the white working class is steep, and ...

Even where the United States does help children, the quality of that help tends to be poor. There have been many comparisons between French and American school lunches: French schoolchildren are ...