The federal government took important action at the start of 2009 to try and mitigate the impact of the...
This PowerPoint by Isabel Sawhill, PhD Senior Fellow, Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution was presented at a First...
Washington D.C. – Today, First Focus, a bipartisan children’s advocacy organization, called on Congress to take immediate action in...
Casey Family Programs recently released two white papers on improving the child welfare system. These policy briefs highlight the...
Statistics released last fall by the U.S. Census Bureau indicate that in 2008, nearly one in five children under...
One in seven American children has an unemployed parent as a result of the current recession, known by many...
Public schools kept nearly 800,000 homeless students in school during the 2007-08 school year with the support of the...
The United States is facing a deep recession with an unemployment rate of ten percent. 15 million Americans are...
Recession-induced poverty affects kids over their entire lives WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, a new report has found that children...