The budget bill passed by Republicans and signed by President Trump represents the largest transfer of wealth from the poor ...

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

While America fixates on wars in Israel and Ukraine, protests over deportations and fights over tariffs, a quieter crisis is ...

The health of children in the U.S. has “significantly worsened” over the past 17 years in a variety of areas, including deaths, chronic mental and physical illness, obesity, sleep health, activity ...

In fact, a poor American kid is much less likely to escape poverty in adulthood than a poor kid in Denmark or Germany or the United Kingdom. Obviously, that’s not because Americans aren’t ...

Antipsychotic use among Medicaid-insured kids from low- or very-low-income families has grown 7- to 12-fold in the decade from 1997 to 2006, mostly for behavioral problems.

A new federal report issued by the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission portrays children’s health as in alarming decline due to poor diet, chemical exposures, over-medicalization, a ...