The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) provides states with funding for food, health care and other service referrals, and nutrition education for low-income pregnant and postpartum women, and for children up to age 5. The program also provides nutrition and prenatal counseling that is associated with positive birth and infant […]

Homeownership helps build families’ wealth and can promote financial stability. However, recent research from the Urban Institute finds that limited English proficiency (LEP)—limited or no ability to speak English—is a barrier to homeownership in the United States. Even after accounting for other factors that influence homeownership (e.g., race/ethnicity, income, having children), this study found that […]

Hispanic women are experiencing some of the steepest declines in fertility, more than that seen by their non-Hispanic black and white counterparts, according to the CDC’s Births: Final Data for 2017. The general fertility rate (GFR)—the number of births per 1,000 women aged 15-44—among Hispanic women declined from 70.6 in 2016 to 67.6 in 2017. […]

A report from Urban Institute and the National Center for Children in Poverty found that expanding state immigration enforcement policies increased material hardship (such as eviction or difficulty paying for basic household expenses) in immigrant households with children. Although the policies target unauthorized immigrant populations, lawful immigrant households also experienced more material hardship in states with expanded […]

Children of lawful immigrants in the United States are more likely to experience food insecurity—or a lack of regular access to enough food for an active, healthy lifestyle—than children of U.S.-born citizens, according to a research brief from the National Center for Children in Poverty. The federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), also known as […]

Rates of residential placement (placement in out-of-home residential facilities) among youth in the juvenile justice system decreased by more than 40 percent between 1997 and 2015. The new America’s Children in Brief report from the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics also finds that for Hispanic youth, residential placement dropped by 30 percent. […]