May Ng and John Kim Named Vice Presidents The Annie E. Casey Foundation is pleased to announce the promotion of May Ng to vice president and chief investment officer and the promotion of John Kim to vice president – which is in addition to his current position as chief of staff. Read More
1.7 Million More Children Live in Low-Income Working Families Today Than in Midst of Great Recession Rising tide of economic recovery did not lift all boats; it left millions shipwrecked, according to the 2015 KIDS COUNT Data Book. State and federal policies that focus simultaneously on children and their parents can help more families enjoy the nation’s growing prosperity. Read More
Annie E. Casey Foundation CEO Calls for States to Close ‘Youth Prisons’ As a new report finds secure facilities inherently flawed and dangerous, Casey Foundation President & CEO Patrick McCarthy calls for them to be replaced with strategies that promote youth development. Read More
Poverty and Barriers to Opportunity in Atlanta This report on poverty in Atlanta explains how opportunities for children and families in Atlanta vary widely depending on race, ethnicity and where they live. Read More
Too Many Kids in U.S. Child Welfare Systems Not Living in Families On any given night, about 57,000 children under the care of our nation’s child welfare systems are going to bed without the care and comfort of a family. In its latest KIDS COUNT policy report, Every Kid Needs a Family: Giving Children in the Child Welfare System the Best Chance for Success, the Foundation highlights this and other sobering statistics that point to the urgent need to ensure, through sound policies and proven practices, that everything possible is being done to find loving, nurturing and supported families to help raise more of these children. Read More
Official Poverty Measure Fails to Provide an Accurate Assessment of Anti-Poverty Programs A Casey report shows that the federal government’s official poverty measure created in the 1960s uses outdated information on how U.S. families are faring today, failing to illustrate the effect of programs designed to help them. Read More
Partnership Seeks Proposals for Summer Programs Serving Baltimore Children Casey Foundation, Family League and Weinberg Foundation to invest nearly $1.5 million in enriching summer activities for youth. Read More
Nearly Half of America’s Families With Young Children Struggle to Make Ends Meet With almost half the nation’s young children growing up in low-income households, a new report from the Casey Foundation calls for a comprehensive effort to lift kids out of poverty. Read More
Casi la mitad de las familias estadounidenses con niños pequeños les cuesta llegar a fin de mes Casi la mitad de las familias del país con niños pequeños viven en hogares de bajos ingresos y carecen de las herramientas necesarias para obtener estabilidad. Un nuevo informe de la Annie E. Casey Foundation propone un esfuerzo global para sacar a los niños de la pobreza. Read More
Thirty-five Largest U.S. Cities Saw Increase in Child Poverty Rate Between 2005 and 2013 The 2013 American Community Survey data show the first decline in the national child poverty rate since it began to rise in 2008. Although many cities also experienced declines between 2012 and 2013, the child poverty rate in the majority of America’s largest cities has not yet returned to prerecession levels. Read More
