Nation Jun 23 One in five U.S. children stalled in poverty One out of five U.S. children lived in poverty in 2014, unchanged from the previous year despite rising employment, according to the latest available data from the Annie E. Casey Foundation. By Laura Santhanam
Nation Sep 24 Kids are getting adopted faster today, and here’s why that matters The amount of time a child in foster care waits to be adopted has dropped dramatically since 2000, an improvement that is no accident, according to child welfare advocates. By Laura Santhanam, Megan Crigger
Nation Jul 21 Watch 7:05 Why minority kids are being left behind by the economic recovery Child poverty is worse now than it was before the Great Recession, despite strides toward economic recovery. That's according to a new report by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, which found that rates were most severe for African-American and Native… By PBS News Hour
Nation Jul 21 More children are in poverty today than before the Great Recession Today, 22 percent of children live in poverty, up from 18 percent in 2008. By Laura Santhanam, Megan Crigger
Jul 22 U.S. families with children experiencing more poverty, job insecurity By Kyla Calvert Mason More children in the United States were living in financially strapped household in 2012 than in 2005 before the economic downturn, according to an annual report on child well-being from the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Continue reading