“We know better, and we should do better. To see the increase in poverty, particularly for children, is very worrisome,” said Kim Janey, a former mayor of Boston who now heads an anti-poverty nonprofit. “If we want to be a country where the American ...
Policy Points Child poverty is associated with both short‐ and long‐term health and well‐being, and income support policies can be used to improve child health. This article reviews the types of income support policies used in the United States and the evidence of the effectiveness of these...
Controlling for these variables is particularly important because there are likely to be crucial interactions among both known (e.g., father absence and poverty) and unknown environmental cues. For example, although women in populations with higher infant mortality have earlier first births19,46, ...
Somewhat unsurprisingly, childpovertyrates have increased dramatically in the countries worst affected by the financial crisis. Since the collapse of its banking system in 2008, Iceland has recorded a 20 percent increase in child poverty which now stands at 32 percent. Austerity ravaged Greece is clo...
2b,c). Early onset of wasting was consistently high across countries with different levels of health spending, poverty and under-5 mortality, with early wasting particularly high (18.3% (95% CI: 13.5, 24.4) at birth) in the five cohorts with birth measures and a national health expenditure ...
When Iowa Gov. Kim Reynoldssigned her state’s new, more permissive child labor lawon May 26, 2023, the Republican leader said the measure would “allow young adults to develop their skills in the workforce.” As scholarsofchild labor, we find the arguments Reynolds and other like-minded po...
Child care has always existed in the United States. Organized childcare centers in the early 1800s took the form of infant day schools in parts of Boston and New York. During the industrial revolution, and as a result of increased immigration to the United States, day nurseries were created ...
Nearly all countries have ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and, therefore, support children having access to their rights. However, only a small minority of children worldwide have access to their environmental, economic,
20. Beiser M, Hou F, Hyman I, Tousignant M: Poverty, family process, and the mental health of immigrant children in Canada. American Journal of Public Health 2002, 92(2):220-227. 21. Ali JS, McDermott S, Gravel RG: Recent research on immigrant health from statistics Canada's...
s development may also occur through factors that are associated with chronic mental illness such as poverty, social adversity, and disadvantage. Marital discord, for instance, can result in part from living with an individual who has a chronic mental illness and can impact children’s development...