Center for American Progress13d
Child Care Expenses Push an Estimated 134,000 Families Into Poverty Each Year
Robust public investments can lift the weight of the child care affordability crisis off the safety net’s shoulders.
The Repository27d
'No demographic is immune': Poverty rate for Ohio children is reaching startling numbers
Ohio’s poverty rate was 13.4% in 2022 and the state’s child poverty rate was 17.7%, according to the latest report from the Ohio Association of Community Action Agencies. While the state’s ...
Daily Record19d
Council areas with highest child poverty levels to be focus of more action
The City of Glasgow Council has announced the ten wards with the highest levels of child poverty that will be the focus of actions to help the city's poorest families. The areas mentioned will ...
U.S. News & World Report27d
More Than 1 Billion People Live in Acute Poverty. Half Are Children and Many in Conflict Zones
More Than 1 Billion People Live in Acute Poverty. Half Are Children and Many in Conflict Zones UNITED NATIONS (AP) — More than 1 billion people in the world live in acute poverty, over half are ...
Multi-country study finds significant differences in how poverty is passed from parents to children
Researchers from Stockholm University, Bocconi University, and the Rockwool Foundation have studied poverty's lasting impact ...
The Big Issue21d
No mention of two-child limit on benefits in Labour's 'ambitious' child poverty strategy
Charities have welcomed the government’s child poverty strategy as a “big step in the right direction”, but they warn urgent action is needed to “scrap the two-child limit on benefits” and ensure ...
R Street Institute10h
Summarizing the Benefits of the 2021 Child Tax Credit Expansion on Families: What the Data Reveals
The expansion also led to a historic improvement in the well-being of children from low-income families, pulling 3.7 million ...
RTE Online6d
NI child poverty strategy 'characterised by failure'
A plan to tackle child poverty in Northern Ireland has been "characterised by failure", a scathing report into the Executive's plan has said. The Executive's Child Poverty Strategy was originally ...
The Independent21d
Trade unions and health experts to have their say on child poverty plans
Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall has said the UK cannot fulfil its potential while children are in poverty (Ben Whitley/PA) (PA Wire) From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech ...
The New Zealand Herald29d
‘Concerning’: Child Poverty Reduction Minister mulls further changes to deprivation measures
Video / NZ Herald / Getty Child Poverty Reduction Minister Louise Upston wants to change one of the ways child poverty is measured in New Zealand. Earlier this year, it was reported the minister ...
Yahoo Finance21d
Marine Toys for Tots Delivers Hope to Children in Need on Child Poverty Day and Throughout the Year
TRIANGLE, Va., Oct. 24, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- As a Nation, we recognized Child Poverty Day on October 17th. However, the Marine Toys for Tots Program is on a year-round mission to help the nearly ...
Center for American Progress13d
RELEASE: Child Care Expenses Push an Estimated 134,000 Families Into Poverty Each Year
Washington, D.C. — Child care is one of the most expensive items in family budgets. A new Center for American Progress ...