Expanding the state's child tax credit would give low and moderate income families more disposable income and reduce poverty rates.

After hearing from moms like Britt, Rochester City Council Vice President LaShay Harris worked with The Children’s Agenda to draft the Rochester City Council People, Parks and Public Works Committee ...

Rochester City Council member LaShay Harris, released a comprehensive report detailing the current state of childhood poverty ...

Experts suggest that affordable and accessible education is crucial for addressing child poverty in the long term. One-third of Erie's school-aged children lived in poverty in 2023, more than ...

For Ireland’s young people, rhetoric is not enough; what this generation really needs is genuine commitment and urgency to ...

The "true rate" of child poverty was somewhere between 11.7 and 13.7 percent, household financial statistics senior insights analyst Ryan Sutcliffe said. That level of uncertainty existed because ...

By Allison Lake, Executive Director, Westchester Children’s Association   Childhood poverty is a silent crisis affecting families across New York ...

The latest child poverty statistics show child poverty reduction must remain a priority for the Government. “Children should not be living in poverty, and the latest statistics are hugely ...

The latest child poverty statistics show we are failing to achieve previously agreed targets, and none of the Government’s three child poverty reduction targets have been met. Chief Children’s ...

The prime minister has been urged to rethink the Conservative-era limit after the Resolution Foundation said his strategy to tackle child poverty would lack credibility if it remains in place.

or nearly half of all children in relative poverty in 2012, had at least one smoking parent. We also estimate that around 432,000 children would be classed as being in poverty if parental tobacco ...