The Center for American Progress (Jan. 12, 2021) reports that there were 11 million children who were poor in 2019, about one-third of all poor people in the U.S. (www.americanprogress.org). The U.S.

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - New data shows that while thousands of Kansas children were spared the effects of poverty and food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic, now that those programs have closed ...

The end of pandemic-era economic policies has led to a surge in child poverty nationwide, according to a new report. The ...

How has the two-child limit affected child poverty and other outcomes? What options for altering this policy does the ...

Editor's note: The following article was originally published by the Ohio Capital Journal and is available to the Canton Repository under a content-sharing agreement. Ohio’s poverty rate was 13.4% in ...

Childhood trauma can have lasting psychological effects. A new study has found that early childhood stress from racism, poverty and other traumas can change the structure of children’s developing ...

Through my research on racism, stress, and cognition, I have developed concerns about how Black Americans are mishandled and neglected in our country beginning from childhood. I use the terms ...

A worker follows a raisin harvesting machine at a farm near Fresno in this 2021 photo. ERIC PAUL ZAMORA [email protected] Poverty is pervasive. Poverty has negatively affected the lives of ...