Child poverty and caregiver mental health problems have large negative impacts on the health of the next generation, finds a large-scale study published in the Journal of Adolescent Health. Led by ...

The federal government's expansion of the child tax credit -- one of many stimulus programs in response to the pandemic -- ended at the end of 2021. Other safety net expansions ended around the same ...

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 ...

For over a decade, The Poverty Center has partnered with Cuyahoga County’s Invest in Children initiative (IIC) to improve child and family outcomes in the county. Invest in Children is a ...

Most parents know the feeling—that quick flash of panic when a child falls, bumps a table, or wakes up with a bruise you don’t remember seeing the day before. For many families, it’s a passing worry.

What determines mental health, school performance, and even cognitive development? A new study in Reviews in the Neurosciences suggests that poverty and low socioeconomic status (SES) are key ...

Zulfiqar A Bhutta and colleagues argue that the response to children in fragile and conflict affected settings must move beyond event based framings to tackle cumulative and intergenerational ...

How will you address child hunger? What will you do to make health care more accessible for low-income families with children? In what way would you improve the child welfare system? These are just a ...

Republicans and Democrats both acknowledge the erosion of the middle class. They differ on solutions to the problem. Left out of the public discourse discussion are the poor who, both parties seem to ...

A framework of poverty-related factors and future consequences, such as delay language development, poor educational attainment, and neural abnormalities. What determines mental health, school ...