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If we want fewer children involved in the child welfare system, we have to look early and broadly: at what helps families stay stable and helps children thrive.” ...

A majority of college students report lacking sufficient food or access to stable housing while enrolled, and a new study shows a connection between generational wealth and a student’s level of basic ...

Two-thirds of families who have a child with a disability told Stanford researchers that they struggled to meet basic needs, such as food, housing, utilities, child care and health care. Since 2020, ...

People need to feel autonomous. This is a dictum most people will agree to. As Walt Whitman put it in Leaves of Grass: Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by ...

About 10% of households in Washington state meet the federal poverty threshold, but when researchers drilled into the data on what it actually takes to survive in the state, they found the number of ...

San Diego families need to earn $116,000 annually just to meet basic needs, according to the Real Cost measure from San Diego County United Way that highlights the growing financial strain on local ...

As many as 95% of vulnerable families in Romania cannot cover basic needs, such as medicines and healthcare, food and other bare necessities for children, education expenses related to children, ...