Children and Youth

Just days after Associate Justice Stephen Breyer announced that he would retire from the Supreme Court, President Joe Biden said that his nominee for the position would be a Black woman. Biden’s…

Not knowing whether their children will eat the healthy food put on their plates, parents may prepare a less healthy dish for themselves to serve as backup for the kids too.

In January, we published a blog highlighting practical steps that palm oil companies can take to respect child rights and address child labor in their operations and supply chains. In June, the…

Since nutrition standards were strengthened in 2010, eating at school provides many students with healthier food than is available cheaply elsewhere. Plus, reducing stigma increases the number of kids getting fed.

Fewer kids are dying than ever before — but a lot of work remains.

Memphis, Tennessee, is often the subject of negative media attention, particularly when it comes to crime and poverty.However, after working for months with local non-profit organizations as part of our Narrative Change work, we were able to confirm what residents of the city have always known—that…

Public spending on children—including the child tax credit—benefits kids and families in the immediate term and can have a long-term payoff for the federal government and society.

Multiple state bills are undoing protections against child labor, but some groups are pushing back.

School closings during the pandemic’s first year brought an immediate and potentially devastating problem: How would millions of children get the school meals many of them depended on? The US…

The pandemic has proved in the starkest of terms the importance of childcare and preschool programs. Working parents have overnight found their childcare upended as capacity and hours shrunk or…

Many people wrongly assume that cannabis use during pregnancy is safe. Research is increasingly documenting a host of serious health harms from prenatal exposure to cannabis and other substances.

For children living near U.S. highways, a transition to zero-emission electric vehicles will mean reduced exposure to dangerous exhaust.