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

Black Americans are much more likely than white Americans to experience childhood poverty, but the white children who do grow up poor are just as likely to be poor in adulthood. We were also ...

Updated data on child care and early learning in the United States illustrate the urgent need for holistic public ...

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

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

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 ...

Child tax credits benefit parents and guardians when they file their yearly tax returns and typically provide a set amount per dependent child.

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

Child poverty rates in two Ohio cities increased more than 20 percentage points from the 2013 American Community Survey to the 2023 survey. Ironton, the county seat of Lawrence County, had the ...

work and child-care expenses all contributed to pushing people into poverty in 2023, while a range of government benefits helped a substantial number of Americans stay out of financial hardship.