Access to public benefit programs is linked to reduced poverty, improved health outcomes, improved academic performance for ...

Australia made great strides in the 1990s when former prime minister Bob Hawke and his government committed to end child ...

The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) helps reduce poverty for working American families by providing a tax credit for ...

Today marks 17 years since the apology to Australia's Indigenous peoples for the forced removal of Aboriginal and Torres ...

Shawn Alex Nemeth, the founder of Houston's Chester Street Foundation, talks about surviving a traumatic childhood and the ...

Head Start programs in Wisconsin face funding freeze, jeopardizing critical childcare services for low-income families.

An analysis by Drexel researchers found the highest-risk cities had higher rates of poverty, a higher percent of Black ...

While WIC itself isn’t facing direct funding cuts, a new policy brief from the National WIC Association (NWA) warns that changes to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) ...

Schools across the country serving children from low-income communities have increasingly ramped up wraparound services for ...

The proposed measure would replace the Working Families Tax Credit with a state version of the Earned Income Tax Credit.

The Trump administration’s decision to dismantle the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the US government’s primary channel for humanitarian aid and disaster relief, is expected to have ...

Columnist Teri Sforza writes that childhood obesity in California is on the rise, state data shows. Free school meals have ...