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 ...

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.

Charles Loring Brace revolutionized America’s understanding and treatment of poor children—and he did it all for Christ. In October 1849, a young seminary student in New York City rowed across ...

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 ...

Voluntary poverty would mean not just giving up some luxuries, it would mean sacrificing my children’s future. Members of religious orders, and to some extent of the military, know a different ...

Sept. 1, 2012 — -- intro: Recently, Gina Rinehart, an Australian mining tycoon and the world's wealthiest woman, had some choice words for poor people. "If you're jealous of those with more ...

Making matters worse, children’s impoverishment can cost us more in the long run. Poverty raises crime rates, which hold their own costs. Next, crime brings additional expenditures for police ...