More than 9 million children — about 13% — are living in poverty in the U.S., according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau.
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 ...
Around 1 in 5 children today are living in extreme poverty, according to new World Bank-UNICEF research. In 2024, an estimated 412 million children aged 17 or younger were residing in households ...
Syracuse, N.Y. — Syracuse has the nation’s worst child poverty among larger U.S. cities, according to new census estimates released Thursday. The city had a child poverty rate of 45.6% in estimates ...
Syracuse, N.Y. — The child poverty rate in Syracuse fell by more than 7 percentage points in 2024, but the city still had one of the highest rates of child poverty in the nation, according to new ...
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Each year the Census Bureau calculates what share of school-aged children in every U.S. school district live below the poverty line. New figures released last week show that Lake Oswego and Sherwood ...
WASHINGTON — The temporary expansions of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and the Child Tax Credit (CTC) as part of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 reduced child poverty in the United States ...
New York Governor Kathy Hochul is focusing her agenda this legislative session on affordability — and she says programs for young people and child care are a key component. But a new report finds ...
Why does child abuse happen? A new public service announcement says most people think it’s a “bad parent problem,” but the ad suggests “the root causes may be different than you think.” This message ...
A new council strategy aiming to continue the fight against child poverty on Wearside by “supporting children and families to thrive” has been given the final stamp of approval by senior councillors.