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 ...

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.

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kentucky continues to have higher rates of children in poverty, teen pregnancies, and child and teen deaths than the national average, according to the KIDS COUNT Data Book released Monday. The state ...

Whereas 14.4 percent of white children live in poverty in Nebraska, 45 percent of Native kids, 40.2 percent of black children, 38 percent of Asian and 36 percent of Hispanic children grow up poor. For ...

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 ...

Research shows that a tax policy bill shot down by Senate Republicans this week would have helped bring 500,000 children out of poverty, according to the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) ...