While the United States typically has one of the highest child poverty rates among industrialized nations, 24 the past three decades have seen a historic decline, driven in part by higher state ...

In 2021, the federal government of the United States expanded a set of income trans fers that led to strong reductions in child poverty. This research note uses microdata from more than 50 countries ...

Nearly 70 percent of children in the United States under age 6—14.7 million children—have all available parents in the workforce, 1 making child care and early learning programs essential not ...

An estimated 111,000 children under 18 experienced homelessness in 2023, or about 17% of the nearly 650,000 people nationwide who were unhoused, according to point-in-time estimates from the ...

The Brief. Child care consumes up to 13% of married couples’ income and up to 45% for single parents in New York, the highest in the U.S., according to a WalletHub study.