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, ...

If their parents had extra cash, would it help poor children? The intuitive answer is yes; not only can any parent attest to the cost of raising children, researchers can also point to a variety of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. St. Louis is a poor city. Its school district serves a higher share of children living in poverty than 95% of communities ...

How can the United States — still the richest nation on earth — tolerate one of the highest child poverty rates in the industrialized world? This is not inevitability but failure: we have the wealth ...

This guest essay reflects the views of Louise Skolnik, professor emeritus of social work at Adelphi University and former Nassau County director of human services and deputy commissioner of the county ...

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 ...

Community partners with a federal feeding program talk with a community member at an outreach event in North Charleston in February 2025. USDA photo. A recent report on child poverty in South Carolina ...