Schools are paying for cookers, beds and food for families living in poverty, school leaders have said. More pupils are missing out on extracurricular activities and school trips as families ...

“Knowing that poverty is going up, uninsured students are going up, schools are trying to figure out, how do we provide even more services to kids?” said Tramelle Howard, Louisiana state ...

the child poverty rate went from 5.2%, a historic low, to 12.4%. Why are we surprised that more families are struggling to get by, and to get their kids to school on a regular basis? Congress ...

Childhood poverty rates improved overall in Utah between 2021 and 2022, based on the most recent U.S. Census Bureau estimates. But in a handful of Utah’s school districts, the number of kids ...

Poverty numbers are an attempt to quantify complex real-world truths: It matters whether kids have adults who can help with school work and advocate for them. It matters whether they have stable ...

Twelve school districts in New York had poverty rates among school-aged kids of 30% or more in 2023, according to new estimates from the Census Bureau. That’s three less than in 2022.

In the richest country in the world, it is absolutely inexcusable that millions of our children go to school hungry because they are living in poverty ... best state for kids to grow up, and ...