But in today’s Spring Statement from the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, showed a shocking determination to instead double down on ...

(THE CONVERSATION) In 1959, more than a third of all elderly Americans lived in poverty. Slashing that number to under 10 percent by the late 1990s was among the great U.S. triumphs of the 20th ...

The world’s richest men are taking from the world’s poorest communities with deadly consequences. Right now, every $1 becomes $5 to fight for equality.

A pair of bills moving through the Legislature seek to tweak foster care and child maltreatment policies, including making it ...

Advocates say tax relief such as a child tax credit is needed now as support programs shrink, but federal cuts could ...

Randi Weingarten, the head of the American Federation of Teachers — one of the nation's largest teacher unions with 1.8 million members — denounced the cuts as "an attack on opportunity that will gut ...

New analysis finds 46 per cent of children in families with non-UK born parents live in poverty “I can’t buy clothes for my children, I can’t buy them shoes, I can’t buy them a single toy, I can’t buy ...

Children in Birmingham's most deprived areas will get access to a programme to help protect them from tooth decay, the government has announced today (March 7). One in four children aged five has ...

Languages: English. The latest report reveals that nearly one in four children in NYC lives in poverty, a staggering increase compared to when the report was first created. This shift has ...

When people have irregular or no access to energy at all over a prolonged period of time, they are "energy poor" - a situation that raises serious concerns in terms of the right to protection from ...

Dozens of Connecticut lawmakers lobbied for a new child tax credit – worth up to $1,800 per year – on Wednesday. Parents may like the idea, but it faces a tough road ahead with Gov.