St. Louis is a poor city. Its school district serves a higher share of children living in poverty than 95% of communities nationwide. Decades of research has shown that growing up in poverty hurts ...

What do twenty pounds of bricks feel like? Would it be easier to carry them on your back or your head? At what age would a child be allowed to work in a brickyard? For second-grader Emily Salibian, ...

The number of children in poverty rose by 979,000 from 2022 to 2023, Census Bureau data shows. The rise in child poverty comes as families still grapple with life without an enhanced child tax credit.

Oklahoma City Public Schools students show off their new winter coats last year, courtesy of the OKCPS Foundation’s Coat-A-Kid program. It’s August, and it is hot outside. Yes, it happens every year.

At the height of the recession in 2012, nearly one in four American children were living in poverty. Today, five years after America went through the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, ...

Whereas 14.4 percent of white children live in poverty in Nebraska, 45 percent of Native kids, 40.2 percent of black children, 38 percent of Asian and 36 percent of Hispanic children grow up poor. For ...

Shyann Slain, 7, eats a meal from Del Tacos as her father Anthony Slain, 45, uses his van’s battery to generate electricity as he set up a camper for them to sleep that night in the South Natomas ...

Kentucky continues to have higher rates of children in poverty, teen pregnancies, and child and teen deaths than the national average, according to the KIDS COUNT Data Book released Monday. The state ...

Every day in Nebraska, a child is sexually abused. Two children are physically or emotionally abused. Eight are removed from their homes and placed in foster care. Fourteen go without the food and ...

The Chancellor Rachel Reeves accused Nigel Farage of being 'all over the place' on the two child benefit limit as the Reform leader said his party would vote against the changes ...

When Donald Trump says almost four in 10 black American youths live in poverty, he’s technically correct. According to the official poverty measure, 36 percent of African-Americans under the age of 18 ...

Rx Kids, a program that offers pregnant moms cash assistance, is growing quickly in Michigan. It will come to Detroit next.