Movie star and comedian Tiffany Haddish, left, is a former foster child who now advocates on behalf of foster children.
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The earned income tax credit lifts around 6 million of the working poor out of poverty every year, but with the economy hammered by COVID-19, many might not get the benefit they need.
Boys at Crumpsall Workhouse, Manchester, circa 1895-1897.
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Intergenerational poverty affected children’s health in the 18th and 19th centuries – we must be aware of the risks today.
Stressors put on children and adolescents as a result of the pandemic response may have long-lasting effects on their health and well-being.
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The pandemic response has put the long-term health and well-being of children and adolescents at risk, with the possibility of seismic shifts in population health if we do not act.
Marcus Rashford.
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Thurston Domina, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The millions of US children whose parents can’t always afford enough nutritious food for their families get about a quarter of their calories from what they eat at school.
Boris Johnson claimed child poverty has reduced – has it?
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Child poverty has important psychological and social consequences. This means solutions need to cover very many different angles.
The Office of the Children’s Commissioner and the Ministry for Children have interviewed thousands of children about what well-being means to them.
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Kate C. Prickett, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
When thousands of New Zealand children were asked what well-being meant for them, most wanted enough money for basics, good relationships and to be free from bullying, racism and discrimination.
One of the recommendations by a welfare advisory group was to raise benefit levels by up top 47%, but the government has rejected it, for now.
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Michael Fletcher, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
Ardern’s coalition government promised to overhaul New Zealand’s welfare system, but its response to a comprehensive report by an expert advisory group has been disappointing at best.
Children are growing up hungry across Britain.
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British children left angry and bewildered by food poverty.
Some children in New Zealand live in such hardship that they don’t have a good pair of shoes and have to put up with feeling cold.
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Michael Fletcher, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
The New Zealand government has set targets for reducing child poverty, but with hundreds of thousands of children living in poverty, this goal remains a challenge.
Education through to the end of high school is a birthright in Australia but many kids are missing out on important parts of that birthright in ways that leave them feeling like losers and outsiders.
A White House Council concluded that the war on poverty is “largely over.” But, while poverty among seniors has declined, poverty among adults and children as changed little over the last 40 years.