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Medicaid covered nearly half of the hospitalizations for children in 2009, up 10 percent from the percentage it covered in 2000, according to a statistical brief from the Healthcare Cost and ...

The percentage of U.S. families who could not afford sufficient food increased substantially in the months after the federal government’s advance child tax credit cash payments expired late last year, ...

Child poverty in the United States fell by 46 percent in 2021, a record low achieved largely by expanding the child tax credit, according to new data released by the U.S. Census Bureau. The data shows ...