A law passed by the Scottish Parliament in 2017, has focused minds on work to reduce child poverty, but more collaboration is ...

Every day, across Virginia and the United States, thousands of families are torn apart — not because of neglect or abuse, but ...

Testimony over a proposal to redefine “neglect” for the child welfare system showed a divide between social workers and law enforcement. Legislation in the House seeks to prevent the removal of ...

“When the economy goes south a little bit [and] it recovers, child poverty doesn't necessarily recover with the economy," says Breslin. "So it's not going to just happen unless we really act ...

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore highlights significant investments in the ENOUGH Act, a state-led initiative to end child poverty, ...

When Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the Child Poverty Reduction Act, she pledged to cut New York’s child poverty in half by 2031. To identify the best ways to achieve that goal, she created the expert ...

Gov. Wes Moore's anti-poverty Enough Act initially provides $3M to help Hagerstown's South End. There could be almost $30M ...

Funds tied to federal educational laws would be redirected to states without federal oversight to ensure compliance.

Ending child poverty has been listed as one of John ... Jim McCormick says there is a further need for employers to act as 'community anchors', where they have roots, often as long-established ...

At age 3, children from wealthier families who lived in high-poverty neighborhoods were about as likely to act out as their peers born into poor families. The study relied on data from portions of ...