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The two-child limit urgently needs to go – the future of the UK’s children depend on it.
Children are bearing the brunt of austerity. From obesity to infant mortality, child health is affected by sustained under-investment. What can be done to reverse the decline?
A study of more than 100 teens and their caregivers showed a unique link between hardship and behavior problems.
Rather than helping the families in greatest need, the policy punishes them.
Marriage on its own won’t do away with child poverty, and in fact it can create even more instability for low-income families.
Over one million Canadian children live in poverty. Child poverty is a pernicious childhood adversity that has detrimental long-term impacts on health, development and well-being throughout life.
The film is run through with an unflinching belief in the power communities wield and the tangible limits they face.
Republicans and Democrats have committed to making this family-friendly government benefit a little more generous. Unless lawmakers act, it will get much smaller in 2026.
Destitution causes children immediate suffering – and can affect them throughout their lives.
Working for Families tax credits favour those in work, yet discourage them from working or earning more. But there is a cost-effective way to improve the system for those on welfare and low incomes.
Governmental support is failing the country’s most vulnerable households. Politicians need to act now.
Both major parties are promising to increase payments for families ‘in work’. But the changes will only entrench the problems already faced by beneficiaries and the working poor.
The UK Labour Party used to radically advocate for common ownership. But as private wealth in Britain benefits from ever greater tax breaks, anti-inequality sentiment is waning.
Low-income mothers with infants are struggling with food insecurity, which can lead to long-term health impacts for both mothers and children.
People who have experienced domestic violence can have trouble finding and keeping jobs because of physical injuries and their abusers’ efforts to sabotage their employment.
Measures need to focus on reducing social segregation in schools.
Making further dents in child poverty will mean implementing bold support for those families being left behind. This week’s budget already feels like a lost opportunity.
Expanding SNAP helped shield low-income children from some of the harm caused by economic upheaval when the COVID-19 pandemic began.
New Zealand is making some progress in its treatment of children and young people. But there is still a way to go to meet its obligations under international law.
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Director of the Roy McKenzie Centre for the Study of Families and Children, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Professor of Social Policy, University of York
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Professor, Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, UMass Amherst
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Chair professor, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Professor of Law, University of Tennessee
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Professor of Housing & Social Policy, HHAUS Housing, Homelessness & Urban Studies, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of Public Policy and Economics, University of California, Berkeley
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Professor of Law, University of Waikato
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Reader in Food, Nutrition and Public Health, University of Westminster
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Professor of Education and Social Policy; Director of the Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University
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Visiting Fellow, School of Policy Studies, University of Bristol
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Honorary Associate Professor, Economic Policy Centre, Auckland Business School, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Professor of Education and Public Policy, Durham University
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Professor of Economics, University of Maryland; Director, Aspen Economic Strategy Group, University of Maryland