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Liam Byrne, Labour's shadow work and pensions secretary, responds to the IFS report on child poverty:

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According to the 2015 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Canada, one in ten Canadians and one in five children is food insecure, meaning they don't know where their next meal is coming from.

«This report proves that children are living in poverty because the B.C. Liberal government is clawing back child support from single parent families living on income assistance and disability,» said Mungall.

The media has been reporting extensively on what the Southern Poverty Law Center's Teaching Tolerance project has dubbed the «Trump Effect»: the fear and anxiety which the President - elect's campaign rhetoric - and his policy pronouncements, especially regarding immigrants and Muslims - appears to be engendering among Latino, Hispanic, African - American, and Muslim children, immigrant children, and children of immigrants, and the bullying, intimidation, slurs, and threats which appear to be increasingly directed at them.

This paper reports on a study of how mothers» participation in the Legacy for ChildrenTM intervention (Legacy) improves the health and well - being of children born into poverty.

The Importance of Play in Promoting Healthy Child Development and Maintaining a Strong Parent - Child Bond: Focus on Children in Poverty (AAP Clinical Report)

Imran Hussain, the Head of Policy for Child Poverty Action Group, responds to Walking the Breadline, a new report published today on UK food poverty by Oxfam and Church Action on PovPoverty Action Group, responds to Walking the Breadline, a new report published today on UK food poverty by Oxfam and Church Action on Povpoverty by Oxfam and Church Action on PovertyPoverty...

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Organisations are hoping for action on everything from public spending to child poverty in the chancellor's pre-Budget report.

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2 - A report from the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission saying Britain is on track to becoming ever more divided

The conference, and the new report, is to aid local authorities in developing their local child poverty strategies to meet the need generated by social security cuts and reforms, and to look at the opportunities they have to make progress on poverty prevention and reduction.

The local authority estimates, produced by Donald Hirsch of Loughborough University, are contained in a new report on how local authorities are trying to tackle child poverty at a time of social security cuts and upheaval.

«The report shows that the need to act on child poverty as we enter recession is more compelling than ever.

We are particularly concerned that if the government measures unemployment but doesn't report on the numbers of children living in families struggling to get by because they lack the money they need, we'll fail to deal with the growing problem of in - work poverty.

The analogy to the climate change legislation could be to make a statutory commitment to reduce child poverty (for example, to reach by 2020 a level of child poverty at least 90 % below the 1999 when the commitment to reduce and end child poverty was made) and then to set up an equivalent group to the Low Pay Commission or Monetary Policy Committee to report before each pre-budget report and budget as to progress towards this, and to assess and advise on the range of policy options necessary to get on track.

Growing up in poverty or an unstable home is associated with shortened protective caps on the ends of children's chromosomes, researchers report April 7 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

A new study of national survey information gathered on more than 12,000 Hispanic children from immigrant and U.S. - native families found that although they experience more poverty, those from immigrant families reported fewer exposures to such adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) as parental divorce and scenes of violence.

The current Conservative government, under Theresa May, has made noises about compassion for «just - about - managing families,» but the rhetoric rings hollow; on the day I'm writing this, reports have appeared about the government's decision to close the civil service's child poverty unit.

The agency reported that families with working mothers spent $ 14 billion on care for children under age 15 in 1986, with women below the poverty line paying, on average, 22 percent of monthly income on child care.

The report said: «In the context of creating a fairly funded system, government should also consider the external effects that may combine to compound the effects on pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds, including place poverty (living in neighbourhoods with high proportions of poor children, attending schools serving higher proportions of disadvantaged pupils) gender and ethnicity.»

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Average district per - pupil spending does not always capture staffing and funding inequities.14 Many districts do not consider actual teacher salaries when budgeting for and reporting each school's expenditures, and the highest - poverty schools are often staffed by less - experienced teachers who typically earn lower salaries.15 Because educator salaries are, by far, schools» largest budget item, schools serving the poorest children end up spending much less on what matters most for their students» learning.

High Standards for All Students: A Report from the National Assessment of Title I on Progress and Challenges Since the 1994 Reauthorization (2001) provides a comprehensive summary of the most recent data available from the National Assessment of Title I on the implementation of the Title I program and the academic performance of children in high - poverty schools.

The Sutton Trust report, Background to Success, said: «In the context of creating a fairly funded system, government should also consider the external effects that may combine to compound the effects on pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds, including place poverty (living in neighbourhoods with high proportions of poor children, attending schools serving higher proportions of disadvantaged pupils) gender and ethnicity.»

The report also calls on Congress to extend funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program, increase funding for career and technical education programs, expand the Community Eligibility Provision so more students in high - poverty schools can receive free meals, improve schools» access to Medicaid funding for health and mental health services provided to students, and adjust the Title I funding formula so that it's «accurately and more meaningfully» allocated to rural school districts.

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The report evaluated the 50 U.S. states on four fairness measures: per - pupil funding levels; funding distribution (whether a state provides more or less funding to schools on the basis of their poverty concentration); effort (differences in state spending relative to the state's fiscal capacity); and coverage (the proportion of children in public schools and the income ratio of private and public school families).

The report reveals that 22 percent, or one - fifth, of American children are living in poverty, and 2.8 million of those live in «extreme poverty» on less than $ 2 a day.

It's a significant factor in child well - being, a new report on intergenerational poverty concludes.

State of children: Minority children will outnumber white children by 2024, but they continue to lag behind on indicators including reading proficiency, pre-kindergarten enrollment, and poverty by racial group, according to the latest Kids Count report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

Last week First Call: BC Child and Youth Advocacy Coalition released their annual report card with the latest statistics on child and family poverty in British ColuChild and Youth Advocacy Coalition released their annual report card with the latest statistics on child and family poverty in British Coluchild and family poverty in British Columbia.

Researchers from University of Wisconsin's Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation used data on premature deaths, self - reports about health and factors such as smoking rates, obesity, teen births, the percentage of children in poverty and number of liquor stores vs. grocery stores to rank more than 3,000 counties nationwide against others in their state.

Monmouth County saw a rise in child poverty but a drop in juvenile arrests, according to the annual New Jersey Kids Count rankings, a report on child well being in the state.

Campaign 2000 released its new Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Canada on Monday, November 24th in Toronto.

In addition, studies have reported that families living in chronic poverty have differential outcomes based on when and for how long poverty was experienced (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Early Child Care Research Network, 2005).

This policy statement builds on previous policies related to child health equity, 26 housing insecurity, 27 and early childhood adversity.3 The accompanying technical report from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), «Mediators and Adverse Effects of Child Poverty in the United States,» 28 supports this statement by describing current knowledge on childhood poverty and the mechanisms by which poverty influences the health and well - being of chilchild health equity, 26 housing insecurity, 27 and early childhood adversity.3 The accompanying technical report from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), «Mediators and Adverse Effects of Child Poverty in the United States,» 28 supports this statement by describing current knowledge on childhood poverty and the mechanisms by which poverty influences the health and well - being of chilChild Poverty in the United States,» 28 supports this statement by describing current knowledge on childhood poverty and the mechanisms by which poverty influences the health and well - being of chPoverty in the United States,» 28 supports this statement by describing current knowledge on childhood poverty and the mechanisms by which poverty influences the health and well - being of chpoverty and the mechanisms by which poverty influences the health and well - being of chpoverty influences the health and well - being of children.

For additional details on these measures, see the accompanying technical report, «Mediators and Adverse Effects of Child Poverty in the United States.»

Accompanying this policy statement is a technical report that describes current knowledge on child poverty and the mechanisms by which poverty influences the health and well - being of children.

Parental mental illness Relatively little has been written about the effect of serious and persistent parental mental illness on child abuse, although many studies show that substantial proportions of mentally ill mothers are living away from their children.14 Much of the discussion about the effect of maternal mental illness on child abuse focuses on the poverty and homeless - ness of mothers who are mentally ill, as well as on the behavior problems of their children — all issues that are correlated with involvement with child welfare services.15 Jennifer Culhane and her colleagues followed a five - year birth cohort among women who had ever been homeless and found an elevated rate of involvement with child welfare services and a nearly seven - times - higher rate of having children placed into foster care.16 More direct evidence on the relationship between maternal mental illness and child abuse in the general population, however, is strikingly scarce, especially given the 23 percent rate of self - reported major depression in the previous twelve months among mothers involved with child welfare services, as shown in NSCAW.17

The report focuses on families who are particularly at risk of poverty; single parent families, families with disabled children and / or disabled parents, black and minority ethnic families, and those where grandparents are raising their grandchildren.Read more

According to a recent report, more than 42 million women and nearly 30 million children who depend on them are living in or are on the brink of poverty.

TRENTON — After five consecutive years of rising child poverty in New Jersey, the number of children living in low - income families dipped by about 2 percent in 2014, according to the latest Kids Count report released on Monday.

A new report on child welfare says more U.S. children are living in poverty than before the Great Recession.

A report released by the D.C. auditor this summer estimates there are 6,300 households with children under 5 that would benefit from home - visiting programs, based on risk - factor data including poverty levels, access to prenatal care and developmental delays.

The report shows that in every state anti-poverty programs have led to a reduction in the child poverty rate based on the SPM.

The first trial had a sample of over 100 African American children living in poverty in the mid-1960s; it reported sizable, sustained effects on participants» life outcomes.

In addition to the statewide report, Kids Count compares New Jersey's 21 counties on 13 measures of child well - being, including child poverty, health, safety and education.

A recent report by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, «Race for Results: Building a Path to Opportunity for All Children,» provides a national and state scorecard for how we are providing opportunities for children of color, using 12 indicators, such as percentage of children enrolled in preschool, high - schoolers who graduate on time, and number of children who live in low - povertChildren,» provides a national and state scorecard for how we are providing opportunities for children of color, using 12 indicators, such as percentage of children enrolled in preschool, high - schoolers who graduate on time, and number of children who live in low - povertchildren of color, using 12 indicators, such as percentage of children enrolled in preschool, high - schoolers who graduate on time, and number of children who live in low - povertchildren enrolled in preschool, high - schoolers who graduate on time, and number of children who live in low - povertchildren who live in low - poverty areas.