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, ...

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

Hygiene poverty is a growing problem in schools. Four in five (82%) state school teachers find it difficult to raise the ...

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 ...

Volunteers are a linchpin in addressing and preventing childhood poverty, family instability and abuse. Here are some ways to get involved.

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, ...

America’s children continued to be hardest hit by poverty in 2012, according to new Census Bureau statistics, the Washington Post reports. Suggested Reading Nicki Minaj’s MAGA Support Shouldn’t ...

In many upstate cities like Syracuse, Binghamton, and Rochester, the number of children living in poverty is upwards of 40%.

Some young people in England are living in an “almost-Dickensian level of poverty”, the Children’s Commissioner said as she insisted the two-child benefit limit must be scrapped. Black mould in a ...