New Insights Into Early Childhood Language Learning
The research challenges preconceived notions about language development, particularly in low-income families, by analyzing daylong audio recordings of 1,001 children from diverse backgrounds. [...]
Childhood socio-economic disadvantage in Austria
This paper sketches the breadth and depth of child poverty and material deprivation in Austria today, and discusses the potential longer-run economic costs of childhood disadvantage once [...]
Rising Child Poverty in Europe: Mitigating the Scarring from the COVID-19 Pandemic
Child poverty increased dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic. Left unaddressed, this would not only affect individuals’ life prospects and well-being but also have long-term economic [...]
USA: Lessons From a Historic Decline in Child Poverty
The child poverty rate has been reduced by more than half in the last 25 years. [Dana Thomson, Renee Ryberg et al. – Child Trends, December 2022.] READ MORE
1 in 6 US kids are in families below the poverty line
The official child poverty rate is about the same today as in 1967. It stood at 17% in 1967 – just about the same as in 2020. In many recent years the rate hovered even higher – around 20%. [The [...]
