Poverty

The Senate today advanced President Trump's "big, beautiful bill" which is expected to cost millions of Americans access to Medicaid.

More possibilities open up when families are supported through a crisis, given access to tangible resources and empowered to lead.

Child abuse prevention policies frequently undermine family integrity by mischaracterizing parents struggling with poverty as neglectful, writes Dr. Ashley Cross.

For the child welfare system to work better, we must engage communities of color and face up to the impact of racial bias and poverty, writes Shari Shink.

U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore has re-introduced the Family Poverty is Not Child Neglect Act, a bill she first offered up in 2018 to revise the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, or CAPTA. 

By Jeremy Loudenback

A New York bill would limit the state’s practice of charging parents child support for children in foster care.

Too many parents have to choose between providing their child with an education or being able to care for them. But there is a better way.

By Michael Fitzgerald Reflecting a growing movement to tease out poverty from the many reasons U.S. children are taken into foster care, a new bill before Congress requires states to avoid maltreatment investigations that center solely on a family’s homelessness or lack of financial resources.