According to statistics from the National Center for Children in Poverty, one of every five children lives below the federal poverty threshold in America. Yes, we are the wealthiest nation globally, ...

Two new documentaries take a hard look at the struggles of low-income and middle class families to access the basics—like food, housing, healthcare and education. By signing up, you confirm that you ...

In a prior blog post, we reviewed key issues needed to understand the overall picture in this week’s Census poverty report. Next, we turn to the important subject of child poverty. Whenever the Census ...

Schematic Chart for Institutional Arrangement for Poverty Monitoring and Evaluation ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — Syracuse’s children struggle with some of the worst poverty in the entire country and have done so for years, but new census data released in March shows just how dire the situation ...

Table 2.3: Incidence of overall poverty and of extreme poverty and percentage change between 1996 and 1998 for different socio-economic strata Table 2.4: Incidence of poverty in male headed and female ...

The study population was comprised of 634,994 live births to mothers who resided in 115 counties in Missouri from 1989 - 1998 for an average of 5,522 births per county (range: 156 - 119,244). The ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – In Alondra Rivera’s earliest memory of her childhood in Puerto Rico, she is a toddler, standing in the backyard of her family’s home, anxiously watching her parents argue. Her father ...