Learn more about child poverty in the United States and how to eradicate it.

News About Child Poverty and Strategies for Change:

• Where’s the rallying cry? America’s children are unequally prepared to absorb the impacts of COVID-19. May 13, 2020. Brookings’ Lisa A. Gennetian and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek discuss the impacts of the pandemic on children in poverty.

• A Road Map to Reducing Child Poverty. In February, 2019, The Board on Children, Youth, and Families of The National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine released a ground-breaking report on child poverty in the U.S. and strategies for Cutting the U.S. Poverty in Half in a 10-year period. You can access the report at:

  http://sites.nationalacademies.org/DBASSE/BCYF/Reducing_Child_Poverty/index.htm

• Five Things You May Not Know About the US Social Safety Net. On February 4, 2019 The Urban Institute published this report by Sarah Minton and Linda Giannarelli. Available at:

  https://www.urban.org/research/publication/five-things-you-may-not-know-about-us-social-safety-net

• Hidden in L.A. Suburbia, Wrenching Poverty Preys on Children and Destroys Dreams. On November 25, 2018 The Los Angeles Times launched this series by Steve Lopez. Available at:

  https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-california-poverty-suburbs-homeless-part1-20181125-htmlstory.html

For more information on this topic: 

Lenette Azzi-Lessing discusses child poverty on PBS Stories in the Public Square:

https://youtube/z3xX4Ez4mhk

Click on these links:

• National Center for Children in Poverty

• Childcare and Early Education Research Connections

• The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

• Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University

• Center on Law and Social Policy