A 1990s government initiative to replace housing projects with mixed-income developments gave children an economic lift as ...

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.

Children born into poverty are far more likely to remain poor in adulthood in the United States than in other wealthy countries. Why? The stickiness of poverty in the U.S. challenges the self-image of ...

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, ...

One in five American children live in poverty, even as pundits tout employment highs. EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of important articles like ...

The California budget debate is about children as abstractions -- how will we fund their schools and the health and social services programs upon which they depend. A new report from the Public Policy ...

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 ...