Without access to early education, children are more likely to drop out of school, become a teen parent, never attend college and be arrested for a violent crime – perpetuating the cycle of poverty.

The child welfare system has for far too long confused poverty with neglect, punishing families who are poor with separation ...

It’s certainly true that Black children in the US are much more likely to be poor than white individuals. We see that clearly ...

Economic disparities also persist between races. Black and Hispanic children were more than three times more likely to be in ...

Almost four million children in Argentina are poor and 8.5% live in extreme poverty, according to a report ... parents and who mostly work in the black economy. However children in the north ...

Among black and indigenous children and adolescents, 72.5% were in multidimensional poverty in 2019, versus 49.2% of whites and yellows. Among states, six had more than 90% of children and ...

By 2008-2012, 38 per cent of poor residents in the suburbs lived in neighbourhoods with poverty rates of 20 per cent or higher. For poor black residents in those communities, the figure was 53 per ...

California’s booming economy has led to a slight drop in the child poverty rate, but the state still has the highest rate in the country when the cost of living is taken into account, according to new ...

Fiona Steel, Action for Children’s national director for Scotland, warned the prevalence of poverty in the country has now reached “staggering” levels. It comes as the charity said the ...

A new report says the city’s child welfare investigations are disproportionately targeting low-income Black and Hispanic ... the home is not neglect, it’s poverty. She listed complaints ...