One in six American children under age 5 — about 3 million — live in poverty, the highest rate of any age group. Children remain the poorest age group in America, with children of color, children ...

The Frontline documentary 'Born Poor' follows kids in three families who try to overcome poverty from childhood through their ...

Universal free child care is a popular policy on the American left these days. Zohran Mamdani, New York’s Democratic ...

The classic promise of the American dream is that no matter where you grew up, no matter how poor you were as a kid, you can still have a path to financial stability in the United States as long as ...

Why does child abuse happen? A new public service announcement says most people think it’s a “bad parent problem,” but the ad suggests “the root causes may be different than you think.” This message ...

Antipsychotic use among Medicaid-insured children from low- or very-low-income families skyrocketed in just under a decade, new research shows. Investigators from the University of Maryland in ...

This guest essay reflects the views of Dr. Selwyn M. Vickers, president and chief executive of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and Ann Marie Krautheim, a registered dietitian and chief ...

GREG KELLY (HOST): Now, people are losing their minds about this. Oh, that means empty shelves and more expensive products. Well, hold on a second. First, a little bit of the reaction. That is kind of ...

A disturbing statistic revealing the dismal state of health in America is that more than 40% of the population is obese (defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as having a body mass ...

I did all that could be considered 'pulling myself up by the bootstraps.' No matter how hard I worked, it felt like ...