When it comes to helping poor children in America grow up to enjoy successful adult lives, progressives and conservatives each have half the truth on their side. There is strong evidence to support ...

For low-income students in the United States, the college math is bleak: only one-third of kids from families at or below the poverty line attend college, and even fewer graduate. The Department of ...

The nation’s income and poverty report for 2022, released by the Census Bureau last week, contained a number of disturbing findings. Average earnings and household incomes failed to keep pace with ...

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But at his school’s final concert of the year, an uneasy feeling gnawed at me. Don’t get me wrong. The strings, brass and woodwinds in the orchestra were amazing. And the guitar ensemble — 15 students ...

When the federal government offered to cover the cost of feeding Tennessee’s poor children last summer, state officials accepted the cash. Some $84 million in federal money flowed into Tennessee. The ...

Researchers theorize that a greater incidence of two-parent households may explain the “rural advantage” in household income that children from rural areas have compared to their urban counterparts.

Children raised in poverty suffer many ill effects: They often have health problems and tend to struggle in school, which can create a cycle of poverty across generations. Now, research is providing ...

Let’s face it: being the poor kid is not good. Being the poor kid surrounded by kids who live in an affluent neighborhood means you have to deal with living in a totally different reality than your ...

This article titled “Throwaway Kids,” about the effects of foster care, reports survey results from nearly 6,000 prison inmates. The survey found that one in four prison inmates said they'd spent time ...