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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

When the expansion expired in 2022, 3.2 million American children fell below the poverty line. In 2025, when Americans file their 2024 tax returns, the maximum child tax credit is $2,000 per ...

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 ...