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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 9 million children — about 13% — are living in poverty in the U.S., according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Based ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation shows a concerning rise in child poverty in Hawaii, and forecasts it potentially ...

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.

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, ...

Child poverty is on the rise in Maryland and across the country after the expiration of temporary child tax credits, according to a new report by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. It showed child poverty ...

New York’s child poverty rate has consistently been one of the worst in the nation for years now. Currently, the state ranks 41 st in the US, with 18% of children living in poverty. In many upstate ...

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 ...

Vice President Kamala Harris' remarks to her new campaign staff called for "a future where no child has to grow up in poverty." Her first campaign ad doubled down on this message. Now she is outlining ...

“I think about the families separated in Missouri over the years, not because of abuse or neglect, but because they could not afford to pay a bill or new clothes for their kids.” That was House Ways ...

While the economy was a key topic of discussion for the two presidential candidates when they met on the debate stage for the first time on Tuesday, the duel ended without explicit consideration of ...