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Child poverty rate up in Indiana, Michigan

Michigan ranks 30th and Indiana ranks 31st in children’s overall health and well-being, according to this year’s national Kids Count report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation. The report came out Tuesday, measuring the 50 s [...]

Posted On : Aug, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

25 percent of state's children live in poverty

The overall well-being of children in the United States has stagnated or decreased over the past decade, and New Mexico is no exception — as a new report on child poverty released Wednesday revealed. The 2011 Kids Count Data Book [...]

Posted On : Aug, 18 2011 | Comments : 0

Greens announce plan to reduce child poverty

The Green Party says it wants to bring 100,000 New Zealand children out of poverty within the next three years. A report on household incomes released yesterday by the Social Development Ministry showed the child poverty rate in 2010 was [...]

Posted On : Aug, 03 2011 | Comments : 0

End Poverty One Child at a Time - What You Can Do to Make a ...

A child dies every three seconds due to poverty. Why is it that the murder of one child makes headlines but the death of a child every three seconds is just a statistic? These 10 million children that die each year are a heinous crime [...]

Posted On : Jul, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

B.C. still worst in country on child poverty: report

British Columbia has registered the highest rate of child poverty in the country for the eighth year in a row, child and youth advocacy coalition First Call said Wednesday. "We're still the worst of all the provinces," [...]

Posted On : Jun, 16 2011 | Comments : 0

Tackling child poverty – it's time for a nation of aspiratio...

This week saw Courtney, an eight-year-old girl living on the Canterbury estate in Bradford on TV as part of the BBC's Poor Kids programme, looking at the issue of poverty from the perspective of a child. In previewing the programme, C [...]

Posted On : Jun, 11 2011 | Comments : 0

Child poverty in Britain

In a list of 22 European countries about child poverty, the UK is number 18. Only Slovakia, Poland, Hungary and Italy were ranked behind us by UNICEF last year. And while the UK’s richest enjoyed seeing their assets increase by [...]

Posted On : Jun, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Poverty forces man to throw 4 children ?into river

Poverty and hunger forced a father to throw his four children into the Phuleli River near Hyderabad, Sindh province’s second largest city, a private cable TV reported on Tuesday. Police and neighbours identified the father as Javed [...]

Posted On : Jun, 01 2011 | Comments : 0

A third of children in Birmingham living in poverty

MORE than one in three children in Birmingham are living in poverty with thousands believing they will never achieve their goals in life. A new, disturbing report from youth charity The Prince’s Trust revealed that in Ladywood alone [...]

Posted On : May, 18 2011 | Comments : 0

Do we care about 300,000 more children in poverty?

Much of my childhood was spent in south London's Battersea park, and a lot of my adulthood too, first with my four children in Battersea's adventure playground, and now with my grandchildren. The place inhabits the memories of gen [...]

Posted On : May, 14 2011 | Comments : 0

Child poverty here highest in OECD ?

"Most recent trends show widening gap between poor and rich in high-inequality countries, such as Israel and US," says organization. Israel has the highest rate of child poverty among the 35 member countries of the Orga [...]

Posted On : May, 04 2011 | Comments : 0

Mapping child poverty in England, 2010

Roughly half a million fewer children were in poverty in the UK in 2008-09 than was the case in 1998-99, according to government figures. The most recent figures calculate that 2.8 million children were living in poverty in the UK in 200 [...]

Posted On : Apr, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Child poverty plans due amid criticism of flouting law

The charity Child Poverty Action Group claims ministers have already flouted aspects of the law. The charity is considering taking the government to judicial review over the strategy. The Department for Work and Pensions said its strateg [...]

Posted On : Apr, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

WALTHAM FOREST: More than one in three children living in po...

Over a third of children in Waltham Forest are living in poverty, according to new statistics. The 35% figure equates to 20,769 children in the borough and was released along with nationwide data by the Children in Poverty Action Group ( [...]