A slew of pandemic-era emergency aid for children—including universal school meals and Medicaid expansions in many states—led to the lowest child poverty rate on record. But new Census data show ...

UNICEF works with governments and other partners to address the impacts of poverty on children and to mitigate poverty-related risks to their health, education and well-being. A look at recent and ...

Global Trends in Child Monetary Poverty According to International Poverty Lines, published jointly by the World Bank and UNICEF, presents estimated trends in child poverty from 2013 to 2022, based on ...

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 ...

Note: The following transcript was created by a computer and edited by a volunteer. Dave Miller: From the Gert Boyle Studio at OPB, this is Think Out Loud. I’m Dave Miller. Malheur County has had the ...

In 2022, three New York state jurisdictions made the list of 50 cities with the highest child poverty rates. In 2019, four New York state cities made that list. In neither year did cities in New York ...

In 2021, as the economy reeled from the pandemic, a one-year expansion of the child tax credit led to a historic 46 percent decline in the child poverty rate. But new census data shows a dramatic ...

Under congressional mandate, the National Academies’ Board on Children, Youth, and Families (BCYF) and the Committee on National Statistics will conduct a consensus study to assess the impacts of the ...

This chapter presents our analysis of the difference it would make to poverty statistics to adopt the proposed measure in place of the current measure. This analysis has several objectives: to ...