Millions of children are not getting enough nutrition for optimal growth and development No child should be denied their right to good food and nutrition. Yet growing inequities, conflict, climate crises and rising food prices – combined with the overabundance of unhealthy foods, harmful food marketing strategies and poor child feeding practices – are condemning
Drawing on what works to shape an agenda for action UNICEF released a new report on the impacts and causes of dietary deprivation among the world’s children, calling for urgent action to end severe child food poverty — a key driver of child malnutrition. In Child Food Poverty: Nutrition Deprivation in Early Childhood, UNICEF reveals that
It’s estimated child poverty costs the U.S. economy about $1 trillion annually in lost productivity and spending on crime, health care, child welfare and homelessness. And with the national child poverty rate sitting at 16.3% as of 2022, policymakers are weighing ways to improve economic outcomes for American children to ensure they can thrive in
Policy Basics: Top Ten Facts about Social Security | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Skip to main content May 31, 2024 Eighty-eight years after President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act on August 14, 1935, Social Security remains one of the nation’s most successful, effective, and popular programs. About 67 million people, or
