Ending Child Poverty: Solutions That Work

Ending child poverty is within reach, UNICEF argues, because solutions exist. Meet some of the children and families who are ...
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Uneven Progress: The Global Fight Against Child Poverty

This chart shows the share of children of official primary school age who were not enrolled in primary education in 2024, by ...
Jurist

UNICEF warns of high rates of global child poverty

A UNICEF report revealed on Thursday that over 19 percent of children globally live in extreme poverty, with the majority concentrated in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The organization urged ...
Democrat and Chronicle

40% of Rochester's kids live in poverty. Here's what local leaders want to do about it

Forty percent of Rochester's kids live in poverty, according to a recent report from the U.S. Census Bureau. Local leaders want to change that. A delegation of local elected officials, including ...
EdSource

Child poverty rate nearly triples in California, report finds

The child poverty rate in California nearly tripled from 2021 to 2024 — 7.5% to 18.6% — and is now the fourth highest in the country, according to new KIDS COUNT data from the Annie E. Casey ...

Child poverty soars in Britain as working families struggle to keep up

Across Britain, families that once felt solidly middle class are losing their footing as rents, child care costs and food prices outpace wages.

Child poverty falling but millions still trapped in crisis, says Unicef

Nearly 412 million children, or one in five globally, lived in extreme monetary poverty, surviving on less than $3 a day ...
Democrat and Chronicle

Will paying new mothers cash reduce child poverty? What to know about guaranteed income

New York ranked 41st worst nationally in child poverty. The suffering was most acute in the upstate cities of Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo, where between 40% and 46% of children live in poverty. To ...
WSLS 10

Virginia child poverty rises to 12%, reversing pandemic gains

Child poverty in Virginia has climbed to 12%, affecting more than 230,000 children and reversing previous gains made during the pandemic, according to a new report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
Newsday

Addressing child poverty will help all Long Islanders

This guest essay reflects the views of Louise Skolnik, professor emeritus of social work at Adelphi University and former Nassau County director of human services and deputy commissioner of the county ...
Charleston City Paper

Brack: Let’s not make S.C.’s child poverty worse

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Community partners with a federal feeding program talk with a community member at an outreach ...
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Starmer warned child poverty will hit all-time high if two-child benefit cap not scrapped

Sir Keir Starmer is facing a fresh backlash over the two-child benefit cap after a key economic think tank warned child poverty would hit an all-time high if it is not scrapped. The prime minister has ...