Learn more:
American Academy of Pediatrics: Poverty & Child Health
Children's Defense Fund: Child Poverty
Health Poverty Action: How Poverty is Created
Healthy People 2020: Poverty
The Nation's Health: Income Inequality: When Wealth Determines Health: Earnings Influential as Lifelong Social Determinant of Health
Dig deeper:
Pathways to Inequalities in Child Health (Pearce, et al., 2019)
Population Health in an Era of Rising Income Inequality: USA, 1980–2015 (Bor, et al., 2017)
Poverty Impedes Cognition (Mani, et al., 2013)
Relationship Between Childhood Socioeconomic Position and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): A Systematic Review (Walsh, et al., 2019)
You Can’t Walk or Bike Yourself Out of the Health Effects of Poverty: Active School Transport, Child Obesity, and Blind Spots in the Public Health Literature (Chaufan, et al., 2015)
Faith-focused resources:
American Friends Service Committee (Quakers): Building Economic Justice
Catholic Campaign for Human Development: Poverty USA
Maryknoll Office of Global Concern: Economic Justice
Rabbinical Assembly/UCSJ: "You Shall Strengthen Them": A Rabbinic Letter on the Poor
Religious Action Coalition of Reform Judaism: Global Poverty
Religious Action Coalition of Reform Judaism: Living Wage and Minimum Wage
U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops: Safety Net and Income Support
U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops: Economic Justice - Economy
Other groups working on this issue:
Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP)
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Children's Defense Fund: Child Poverty
Institute for Children, Poverty, and Homelessness
National Center for Children in Poverty