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Nearly 30 percent, or 4.5 million, of college students are low-income, first-generation students.Whether or not these kids can afford college, they’re…

In August, I reported on a pilot project in Michigan that reduced caseloads for Child Protective Services and helped families. Despite impressive results,…

In our final segment of State of Opportunity, Jennifer Guerra looks at what's being done today to help ensure that all children have an equal shot at…

We've written about this before, but it bears repeating: There has been very little talk of poverty during the presidential campaign, and yet nearly a…

When it comes to the “cycle of poverty,” the brutal truth is more than 40 percent of children raised in poverty stay in poverty as adults. Among those who…

On these pages and others it hasn't escaped notice that outside of Big Bird's star turn, issues like poverty and education haven't gotten much attention…

Now that the election is over and we know who will be sitting in the Oval Office for the next four years, it seems like a good time to take a look at a…

"There are good days and bad days." That's how 12-year old Tyler Smith describes his life in Iowa, where he says he and his sister often go hungry because…

A new report by the Pew Economic Mobility Project shows that while all communities were impacted by the Great Recession, families in high-poverty…

There's been a huge push by the Snyder administration to push high-schools to get all their high-schoolers "college ready."Families bank accounts are less…