Child Poverty

The annual child wellness report Kids Count found child poverty has improved in Kansas and Missouri compared to the years before the pandemic. But both states still have tens of thousands of children without health insurance.

The White House is expected to unveil a budget proposal that will, reportedly, aim to eliminate Head Start. The federally-funded program is designed to promote school readiness among young children from low-income families and serves more than 65,000 kids across Texas.

Texas reports drop in child abuse and neglect deaths but the numbers don’t tell the whole story.

State agencies said the U.S. Department of Agriculture did not provide enough information in time for Texas to implement the Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer Program in 2024.

Gov. Kevin Stitt’s office says the state will not implement a federal summer food program for children because U.S. Department of Agriculture rules for it aren’t clear.

The study accounted for factors like economics, education, health and family and community. All of those categories were also ranked individually along with the overall ranking.

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Sixty-five percent of children born to young parents in Texas are living in poverty, according to a new report. The report , released Tuesday by The...

The childhood poverty rate in Kansas has been decreasing since 2014. But a recently released report from the national KidsCount organization shows that...

Among economically developed countries, the United States has the seventh highest rate of child poverty. Twenty-nine percent of the children in America…