Portage County Community Action Council Executive Director John Kennedy debunks myths about poverty in Portage County and ...

Over four million children will still be living in poverty by 2029, the government’s own analysis has forecast, marking a reduction of just 10 per cent from the current figure. Projections by the ...

In 2021, something remarkable happened: the United States cut its child poverty rate nearly in half. This wasn’t due to a booming economy or a new war on poverty. It was thanks to the expanded Child ...

An estimated 417 million children in low- and middle-income countries are living in extreme poverty. Millions of children in high-income countries are also suffering. And more children are at risk of ...

While the economy was a key topic of discussion for the two presidential candidates when they met on the debate stage for the first time on Tuesday, the duel ended without explicit consideration of ...

Edelman, considered “America’s First Mom,” founded the Children’s Defense Fund as a witness for children and to break the ...

The percentage of children living in households experiencing material hardship was 13.3 percent in the year ended June 2018.

Advocates are calling for change after the latest data on material hardship showed the statistics had not changed compared to ...

Louisiana’s child poverty rate over the past three years leads the nation, according to a new study that attributes the trend to rising costs and expiring public assistance programs. The state also ...

The percentage of children living in poverty in New Brunswick remains “alarmingly high,” according to a report released by the Saint John-based Human Development Council.

The 2025 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty on P.E.I. found that 16.7 per cent of children under 18 were living in ...