In the 1990s, Congress created HOPE VI, a program that demolished old public housing projects and replaced them with more ...

St. Louis is a poor city. Its school district serves a higher share of children living in poverty than 95% of communities nationwide. Decades of research has shown that growing up in poverty hurts ...

What do twenty pounds of bricks feel like? Would it be easier to carry them on your back or your head? At what age would a child be allowed to work in a brickyard? For second-grader Emily Salibian, ...

Oklahoma City Public Schools students show off their new winter coats last year, courtesy of the OKCPS Foundation’s Coat-A-Kid program. It’s August, and it is hot outside. Yes, it happens every year.

At the height of the recession in 2012, nearly one in four American children were living in poverty. Today, five years after America went through the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, ...

New federal data shows that poverty among Allen County’s school-age children is rising, even as unemployment remains low and ...

The number of children in poverty rose by 979,000 from 2022 to 2023, Census Bureau data shows. The rise in child poverty comes as families still grapple with life without an enhanced child tax credit.

The number of Ohioans in poverty stayed steady from last year, but the number of children living in poverty is concerning the state’s community action agencies, which work with low-income people. The ...

The child poverty rate has hit a five-year high in America as families continue to deal with high prices for groceries and housing. That rate surged from 12.4 percent in 2022 to 13.7 percent in 2023, ...

Honduran children have traveled the 1,000 miles to the United States in hopes to escape the poverty and crime in their home country. The country's homicide rate was six times the global average in ...

NOTE: This post was co-authored with members of the CUESI Lab—Lindsey Nenadal, Ph.D., Katherine Griffin, Ph.D., Taylor Hazelbaker, M.A., and Kristina Brittenham, J ...