She was a single mom living in poverty, looking for childcare for her children. She was under-educated, unemployed and unfulfilled. But Nataline Purdy was a woman full of potential and promise and ...

Kennedy Elementary School Principal Cris Lopez Anderson, pictured in this December 2014 file photo, says many children in the Lawrence school district live in poverty. Lawrence resident Elizabeth ...

The link between achievement and income is well documented, but a new study has confirmed that the effects of poverty on children are physiological as much as they are social. The analysis, released ...

A book detailing poverty in Oklahoma -- and published more than six years ago -- is still an eerily accurate portrait of the state's economic condition, a consultant for the Oklahoma Institute for ...

OPINION: A series of anti-poverty policies and programs in response to the pandemic offers a glimpse of what is possible when we center the needs of the poor in public policy Hundreds were arrested ...

These questions inspired Kanig to start the Trenton-based Latino arts and culture nonprofit, Casa Cultura, which recently ...

A recently released report on poverty by the Chicago-based Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Human Rights revealed what many of us in Southern Illinois either knew or sensed: Poverty is higher in ...

WHAT CONDITION OUR EDUCATION IS IN: In 2014, 91 percent of 25- to 29-year-olds in the US finished high school, and 34 percent had a bachelor's or more advanced degree. These macro-level stats lead off ...

Under the ILCS 2014, members of the surveyed households aged 16 years and above were asked a series of questions designed to give insights into their primary concerns related to living conditions in ...

Jamaica’s poverty rate dipped to a historic 7.8 per cent in 2024, down from the previous record low of 8.2 per cent in the ...