On August 26, the U.S. Census Bureau released annual poverty figures showing that the percentage of persons who are poor rose from 12.1 percent in 2002 to 12.5 percent in 2003.1 It is important to ...

The results are similar to those shown in the regression in Table 2. Increasing the amount of time a child lives in a single-parent home by 10 percent will increase the likelihood of child poverty ...

Barbara Ehrenreich, who wrote the foreword to “Maid,” pioneered the first-person account of low-wage labor in her 2001 exposé, “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America.” ...

Imagine that you are a child again. In this version of your childhood, you arrive at school hungry, tired and anxious. Your mother was not able to pay the rent this month. The cupboards are bare ...

The U.S. poverty rate saw its largest one-year increase in history. 12.4% of Americans now live in poverty according to new 2022 data from the U.S. census, an increase from 7.4% in 2021. Child ...

Understanding child development can promote holistic policymaking. A range of federally funded programs and policies have been successful in addressing social, health, and economic inequities ...

Judy Woodruff: The child poverty rate in the U.S. fell by nearly half last year to 5.2 percent. That is the lowest level on record, and is based on a Census Bureau measure that takes into account ...

The Multidimensional Poverty Measure (MPM) seeks to understand poverty beyond monetary deprivations (which remain the focal point of the World Bank’s monitoring of global poverty) by including access ...

The two-adult-two-child poverty threshold for 2017, according to the supplemental poverty measure, for households without mortgages was $23,261 and $27,085 for two-adult-two-child households with ...

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The latest report from the Census Bureau shows that the child poverty rate, measured using the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM), spiked from 5.2% in 2021 to 12.4% in 2022. The Official Poverty ...