Category: US Children Poverty

Winners Will Have the Chance to Own a Life-Sized Cotton Candy Castle, Crush a Car in a Monster Truck, and Much More as Part of Red Nose Day’s New “Less Childhood Poverty. More Childhood” Campaign to Raise Life-Changing Funds for Children Facing Poverty NEW YORK, May 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Red Nose Day, the beloved fundraising campaign by Comic Relief US to help end child poverty, today announced Childhood Dreamstakes, a larger-than-life campaign that gives entrants the chance to relive the joy, wonder, and adventure of being a kid. Starting

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A bipartisan compromise to expand the child tax credit and restore some corporate tax breaks looks like it may wither under opposition from Senate Republican leadership, dooming the measure even though the House passed it with a huge majority this year. The Senate’s top Republican tax writer, Mike Crapo (Idaho), opposes the bill, as do other top party officials. Most Democrats back it, and supporters say it’s close to having enough GOP votes to overcome a filibuster but could still be short. With tax season over and elections approaching rapidly,

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World Vision Financial Accountability 8% Fundraising + 3% Management 89% Programs In 2023, 89% of World Vision’s total operating expenses were used for programs that benefit children, families, and communities in need. Learn More  every single penny counts we’re an open book we maximize your impact

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We project that these policies will reduce the national poverty rate in 2022 by nearly one-quarter (23%) and the child poverty rate by nearly half (47.4%), relative to the projected poverty rates for 2022 without the American Families Plan. This could sustain the progress made towards reducing poverty in the United States projected under the American Rescue Plan beyond 2021.  Our analysis projects annual poverty rates for 2022 before and after accounting for the following policies: An expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit for workers without children An expansion

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In 2015, Dr Mona Hanna-Attisha alerted the world that children were being poisoned by lead in the water of her home town of Flint, Michigan. Now, as Flint marks the 10-year anniversary of the crisis, she’s set her sights on another target: the underlying poverty that she says allowed it to all happen. “For a long time, I have literally wished for the ability to prescribe an antidote to poverty,” Hanna-Attisha said. Study after study has shown poverty-related stress and lack of resources can damage everything from babies’ physical health

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By Andrew Leake, Op-ed contributor Monday, April 22, 2024 Tribin is a mother in Bangladesh who struggled to feed her little girls. | Courtesy of Compassion International If there’s one thing I know from being around children, it’s how much they love God’s creation. Kids realize something we adults often forget — that great joy can be found in harnessing the power of the earth to grow something beautiful. A love for creation is God-given. We know this because of how God Himself feels about the world he created. After

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“Why is there so much poverty in America, and what can we do about?” Last spring, Matthew Desmond, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City,” retooled a large lecture course he had been teaching, to coincide with the publication of his latest book, “Poverty, by America.” The new seminar was capped at 15 students. Desmond’s goal: Have students tackle questions about American poverty head-on from multiple angles — and field-test real solutions with community partner organizations. He’s teaching it again this semester. The class,

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