that dramatically improve a poor child's odds of moving up the ... this doesn’t fly in the face of logic.'" That is the hopeful side of this big new study. The discouraging part is the map ...

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 ...

Recent photographs show the struggle for survival at an overcrowded hospital in the southern province of Kandahar, as desperately malnourished babies and children lie side by side and doctors race ...

When families don't have stable housing, their risk of struggling with poor health outcomes and material hardships, such as food insecurity, increases, according to a new study. Researchers ...

Macomb, Mich.; Worcester, Mass.; and Contra Costa, Calif. Florida cities in which poor children face the worst odds include West Palm Beach, Orlando, and Tampa. Counties in which the latter two ...