By not extending the 2021 temporary Child Tax Credit expansion, federal lawmakers have allowed the number of children and ...

A new child tax credit is coming next year, bringing significant changes that will alter how much assistance families receive — and which families can receive it. With his tax and spending package, ...

On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, The Baltimore Sun editorialized that remembering Dr. King involves (among many inspiring messages) “tackling economic inequalities” (“Remembering the promise of MLK,” ...

Policy Director of the Columbia University Center on Poverty and Social Policy With this, the Child Tax Credit is making headlines not seen since its temporary—now expired—2021 expansion. And not a ...

New York ranked 41st worst nationally in child poverty. The suffering was most acute in the upstate cities of Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo, where between 40% and 46% of children live in poverty. To ...

While the economy was a key topic of discussion for the two presidential candidates when they met on the debate stage for the first time on Tuesday, the duel ended without explicit consideration of ...

Syracuse’s child poverty rate of 40.9% was the fourth-highest in the nation in 2024 among places with over 100,000 people, ...

Why does child abuse happen? A new public service announcement says most people think it’s a “bad parent problem,” but the ad suggests “the root causes may be different than you think.” This message ...