Poor kids in the US are likely to become poor adults. More government support during adulthood could change that.

Most scholarship on the subject focuses on conditions during childhood. But government support during adulthood plays the ...

Percentage of children under age 3 in poverty who are served by Early Head Start (EHS). Uses cumulative enrollment numbers and includes both EHS and American Indian and Alaska Native EHS (AIAN EHS).

Children born into poor families are more likely to exhibit aggressive, impulsive behaviors throughout childhood, according ...

"We are rethinking our approach to poverty to create a better Rockford, purposefully moving from intention to impact," writes ...

The idea of the poverty line dates back to 1963, when Mollie Orshansky, a statistician for the Social Security Administration ...

The child welfare system in the United States is a structure intended to protect children and ensure their well-being.

One in three children and a total of 600,000 people in the North East are living in poverty, a new report has found. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) is warning that economic growth alone ...

The Post’s Department of Data tries to figure out why a brief line in the 1990 Schwarzenegger vehicle “Kindergarten Cop” ...

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore highlights significant investments in the ENOUGH Act, a state-led initiative to end child poverty, ...

And approximately half (49.2%) of all American children between the ages of 1 and 20 will at some point reside in a household that receives food stamps. The poverty rate in the City of Rockford is ...