Handling of child poverty plan is 'catalogue of failures'
The Assembly's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has said the Department for Communities' handling of the Child Poverty ...
Trump and Harris both support a bigger child tax credit. But which families should get it?
Just three years ago, child poverty rates fell significantly when President Joe Biden’s administration raised the child tax ...
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Gordon Brown: Two-child benefit cap is trapping families in poverty
In a rare intervention, the former Labour PM challenged the Government's decision to keep the two-child limit and benefits ...
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Child Care Expenses Push an Estimated 134,000 Families Into Poverty Each Year
Robust public investments can lift the weight of the child care affordability crisis off the safety net’s shoulders.
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99,000 children in persistent poverty
The preliminary Stats NZ data released alongside shows 98,900 children are currently considered to be in living in persistent poverty in Aotearoa New Zealand. This is 9.4% of all children in our ...
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The Solution to Child Poverty Is Simple: Give Mothers Cash
That’s because, as Flint Mayor Sheldon Neeley recently noted, Harris’ proposal was modeled after our novel program, Rx Kids, which aims to alleviate child poverty by giving cash payments to ...
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UNICEF works globally to tackle the persistent challenge of child food poverty – and Canada can help
While this success story is encouraging, global food poverty remains a persistent challenge, says Sevaun Palvetzian, ...
Commentary: Harris wants to bring back the expanded child tax credit. Here's why that's good.
The expanded credit already has shown what it can do to fight poverty and hunger in the short time it was implemented under ...
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Child poverty: Two in three schools in poorest areas using their budgets to stop pupils going hungry
It comes as new polling reveals two thirds of England’s poorest schools are paying for extra food for hungry kids out of ...
Positive action to tackle poverty across North Lanarkshire is continuing
North Lanarkshire Council’s updated Tackling Poverty Strategy and Local Child Poverty Action Report highlighted significant ...
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NI child poverty strategy 'characterised by failure'
A plan to tackle child poverty in Northern Ireland has been "characterised by failure", a scathing report into the ...
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Handling of child poverty plan is 'catalogue of failures'
The Assembly's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has said the Department for Communities' handling of the Child Poverty Strategy is a "catalogue of failures," where children and families are not at ...