Category: US Children Poverty

As we all know, poverty has a substantial impact on the children of Oklahoma. Shockingly, over nine million U.S. children live below the poverty line. In Oklahoma, poverty affects one in five children. As someone deeply passionate about working with children, I have seen firsthand the difference between those who live in high-income families and those who do not. Unfortunately, children living in poverty often lack even the most necessities, and it breaks my heart to know that so many are struggling without the help they need. Oklahoma’s children are…

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This article is part of a series from the Center for American Progress exposing how the sweeping Project 2025 policy agenda would harm all Americans. This new authoritarian playbook, published by the Heritage Foundation, would destroy the 250-year-old system of checks and balances upon which U.S. democracy has relied and give far-right politicians, judges, and corporations more control over Americans’ lives. Head Start is a vital support for parents like Javona Brownlee, whose three children all attended Head Start programs. Javona’s two youngest children attended preschool through Head Start while…

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We’ll have an ambitious, wide ranging child poverty strategy, we’ll give all children in primary school free breakfast, protect renters from arbitrary eviction, slash fuel poverty and ensure work is decent and secure for all. We will deliver the change our country needs, with an ambitious agenda to bring hope and opportunity to the next generation, and ensure everyone is better off with Labour. Rishi Sunak, Conservative Work is the best way out of poverty, as Big Issue shows, and our welfare reforms have helped around four million more people…

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How many families struggle to meet daily needs? It is common for popular media to report on the official poverty rate—the fraction of households whose resources fall below the official poverty line. In 2022, the official poverty rate was 11.5%.1 And yet the official poverty lines, which vary by family size and structure, are pitifully low. Note that poverty levels do not vary by location: The federal poverty level for New York City, NY is the same as that for Biloxi, MS. For example, a household with two adults and…

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There was a robust youth-care provision in the town where I lived;  classes and workshops were put on at subsidised rates – some were free – so they felt accessible, even to families with less money. I received a grant to help me attend university, there were no tuition fees, libraries weren’t being closed down, and housing and living costs were all proportionally smaller.   A few years ago, I read a document called We Can Solve Poverty by a charity called The Joseph Rowntree Foundation, which outlined the steps…

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Get stories like these delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter Everyone’s worried about U.S. kids right now. Schools are reporting widespread mental health struggles in their post-pandemic classrooms.  “Perhaps it’s the cell phones?” we wonder. “And the TikTok?”  Sure, screens — and how kids engage with them — are part of this story. And yet, and especially, America tolerates relatively high levels of child poverty compared to peer nations. Nearly 50% of U.S. students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch subsidies because of their families’…

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