Child Poverty Hits Five-Year High in America
The child poverty rate surged from 12.4 percent in 2022 to 13.7 percent in 2023, according to the Census Bureau ...
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When High School–and Childhood–Is Cut Short in America
With a child poverty rate of 35%, 1 in 3 kids are growing up impoverished ... barrier that COVID-19 would present to students across America. Nearly 94% of America’s schools were forced to close their ...
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More Children Are Living in Poverty. What This Means for Schools
Childhood poverty also has long-term repercussions. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine reported in ...
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2023 Census Poverty Data Reveal Uncertain Progress and Importance of Policy Choices
Census data paint a complicated picture of progress against poverty in 2023, as the national poverty rate fell, rose, or held ...
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In Rural America, the Silence of Poverty is Deafening
The children enrolled in our Early Steps to School Success program are among the most vulnerable in their communities, facing risk factors associated with low education achievement, such as poverty, ...
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Why America Can’t Lower Child-Poverty Rates
The lousy child-poverty numbers should come with ... especially from undeveloped areas of Latin America — into its communities, schools, and hospitals. Let’s just say that Russia doesn ...
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Latest Census data show an increase in childhood poverty
Despite wage gains, lower-income families have been hit hard by inflation and the expiration of pandemic-era benefits.
Nearly a million more children fell into poverty last year. Both presidential campaigns want to give parents money to fix that.
The credit has received newfound attention in the run-up to the presidential election. Vice President Kamala Harris has ...
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HISD schools in high poverty areas are less likely to have a librarian, data shows
When ABC13 asked for a list of schools without a librarian or a dedicated library, HISD said books are available to students, ...
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Who are the poor Americans?
This is what poverty in the US looks like' US poverty rate back to ... to be unemployed than white Americans Women with a high school education or less are most likely to be out of the work ...
A Migrant Family Struggles for a Year in San Francisco
Margarita Solito and her family fled violence and poverty in El Salvador, hoping to build a better life in San Francisco. The ...
US Incomes Rose Last Year but Poverty Rates Changed Little, Census Data Shows
The income and poverty data for 2023 comes two months before the U.S. presidential election. The shadow cast by a surge in ...