Category: US Children Poverty

Summary The 35th edition of the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s KIDS COUNT® Data Book examines the unprecedented declines in student math and reading proficiency brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on education. The latest data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress reveals that between 2019 and 2022, fourth-grade reading and eighth-grade math scores plummeted, representing decades of lost progress. This alarming trend underscores the urgent need for action to address the growing academic disparities among U.S. students. Today’s students, who will comprise America’s future workforce, are ill-prepared for

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Expiration of Pandemic Relief Led to Record Increases in Poverty and Child Poverty in 2022 | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Skip to main content Overall poverty and child poverty rose in 2022 by the largest amounts on record in data back to 1967, a sharp retreat from the historic progress made during the COVID-19 pandemic: In 2021, bolstered by federal pandemic relief, economic security programs drove the poverty rate down to a record low of 8.0 percent. The expiration of that aid drove poverty back up in 2022,

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Between 2005 and 2020, the number of children facing simultaneous water and food insecurity in the United States more than doubled. Additionally, Black and Hispanic children were several times more likely than white children to experience food and water insecurity at the same time. This is according to new research by Asher Rosinger, associate professor of biobehavioral health and anthropology at Penn State, and Sera Young, associate professor of anthropology at Northwestern University. In a study published today (June 7) in Nature Water, the researchers examined water insecurity, food insecurity

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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 millions of children to severe child food poverty in early childhood, according to a new UNICEF report. In Child Food Poverty: Nutrition Deprivation in Early Childhood, UNICEF warns that 181 million children in the world

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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 1 in 4 children — 181 million children globally — are living in severe child food poverty due to inequity, conflict and the climate crisis, and that children experiencing this level of food poverty are

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