The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Children's Bureau recently released a media toolkit that includes materials to spread the message about preventing child maltreatment and to promote well-being. April is National Child Abuse…

The U.S. Department of the Treasury created the Financial Empowerment Innovation Fund, an initiative designed to facilitate informed decision making amongst American families by providing increased access to knowledge and tools that promote…

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently held a workshop to examine the broadband needs of rural populations, including the unique challenges of deploying and adopting broadband in rural areas. The event included panel discussions on…

In April 2014, the Institute for Research on Poverty released a discussion paper that explores the receipt of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) among low-income households. The research is based on data from the first two waves of…

The Pew Charitable Trusts released an interactive resource that allows users to sort and analyze data related to various fiscal, economic, and demographic trends in the 50 States. Users may browse data related to state revenue, spending, economy…

This report is from the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. It was found that young adults born in the early 1980s held an average of 6.2 jobs from age 18 through age 26. Over two-thirds of these jobs were held from ages 18 to…

The Economic Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, released a food access research atlas that presents a spatial overview of food access indicators for low-income and other Census tracts using different measures of supermarket…

This issue of Future of Children focuses on two-generation approaches to improving children’s development. A child’s home environment can impact stress, education, health, income, employment, and more throughout his or her life. Two-generation…

This fact sheet from the Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) examines the changing relationship of whether the government or the custodial family is owed child support arrears, and how this influences the financial stability of TANF…

This compendium from the federal Office of Child Support Enforcement provides information from February 2014, showing that at least 30 states and the District of Columbia had work-oriented programs with active child support agency involvement to…