Category: US Children Poverty

Our Founder Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president emerita of Children’s Defense Fund (CDF), has been an advocate for children, especially children in poverty for her entire professional life. Under her leadership, CDF has become the nation’s strongest voice for children and families. Mrs. Edelman, a graduate of Spelman College and Yale Law School, began her career in the mid-60s when, as the first black woman admitted to the Mississippi Bar, she directed the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund office in Jackson, Mississippi. In l968, she moved to Washington,

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NEW YORK STATE (WSYR-TV) — A report from New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli found that New York State has one of the highest child poverty rates in the U.S. One in five children in NYS are living in poverty, according to the report, and New York’s child poverty rate ranked as the ninth worst state in the nation in 2022. The report also found that over the last decade, the national child poverty rate has fallen, but it hasn’t fallen in New York, creating a 2.5% gap. If the

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NEW YORK STATE (WSYR-TV) — A report from New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli found that New York State has one of the highest child poverty rates in the U.S. One in five children in NYS are living in poverty, according to the report, and New York’s child poverty rate ranked as the ninth worst state in the nation in 2022. The report also found that over the last decade, the national child poverty rate has fallen, but it hasn’t fallen in New York, creating a 2.5% gap. If the

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New York State’s child poverty rate is one of the worst in the nation. According to a report released by State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, New York ranked 41st in the nation in 2022. The rate was at least six percentage points higher than states that border New York and second highest among its five most populous peer states: California, Florida, Texas, Illinois, and Pennsylvania. The report also found nearly one in five New York children live in poverty. More than 2.7 million New Yorkers were living in poverty in 2022,

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ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10)— Syracuse, Rochester, and Buffalo rank amongst the top ten largest cities in the US with the highest child poverty rates. According to a new report by the state comptroller, between 40 to 46% of children in those three cities were living in poverty in 2022.  “New York is 41st out of 50 states in child poverty rate in a negative way, so we have a lot more work to do in New York, obviously with a lot more work from Washington as well to really turn around

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The child poverty rate in New York remains one of the highest in the country and is “alarmingly” high in some cities, according to a report released Thursday by state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli. The report found New York’s child poverty rate ranked 41st in the nation in 2022, which was at least six percentage points higher than states that border New York. More than 2.7 million New York residents were living in poverty in 2022 and more than a quarter of them were children, the report said. Almost half of all

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SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Syracuse, Rochester, Albany and Buffalo have child poverty rates that are double the average rate for comparable cities across the U.S., according to a new child poverty report from New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli. The report examines data from 2022 and shows Syracuse, Rochester, and Buffalo rank second, fifth and seventh respectively among the largest cities in the country with the highest child poverty rate. The comparable cohort cities listed in the report include New Haven, Connecticut and Waco, Texas. The population size for the 10

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