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, ...

Residents have “raised their children there. Now, they’re raising their grandchildren there,” she says. “It’s a great model.” A new study backs her up. Led by Raj Chetty, a Harvard economist and a ...

Bringing rich and poor together has major benefits.

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

The U.S. has one of the highest child poverty rates among wealthy nations. Here’s a look at some struggles kids living in poverty face. Kaylie, pictured in the 2012 documentary “Poor Kids” and the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

It is very, very rare that a biological parent tells me they don’t want to parent their child. Parents love their children. Their children also belong with them, barring cases of obvious unsafety. Yet ...

Whether it was having to wear hand-me-downs or pinch every penny to afford the basics, people who grew up never having enough money usually experienced these 11 very specific things.

Most nights, Guillermina Garcia Zarate, 40, does well if she cobbles together even three hours of sleep. In the wee hours she finds herself tossing and turning, her mind a beehive of worry: Will she ...

In spite of America's claim to be a place where all people are free and equal, the amount of economic mobility that people can achieve is relatively small. According to a recent article in The ...

Sept. 8 (UPI) --Nearly 6 million children and young people in Latin America will fall into poverty by 2030 because of climate change's impact on their communities, a recent report predicts. However, ...