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 ...

But at his school’s final concert of the year, an uneasy feeling gnawed at me. Don’t get me wrong. The strings, brass and woodwinds in the orchestra were amazing. And the guitar ensemble — 15 students ...

In Peoria, Illinois, children living in federally subsidized housing have been getting sick in the very places meant to shelter them. An investigation by ProPublica documented that apartments at the ...

Housing hazards exposed: ProPublica found mold, pests, and water damage in Peoria’s Taft Homes tied to asthma and respiratory illness in children. Poverty rates rebound: Child poverty more than ...

Discover how poverty traps create barriers to financial independence, what causes them, and explore practical solutions to ...

For low-income students in the United States, the college math is bleak: only one-third of kids from families at or below the poverty line attend college, and even fewer graduate. The Department of ...

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 ...

How can the United States — still the richest nation on earth — tolerate one of the highest child poverty rates in the ...

This article titled “Throwaway Kids,” about the effects of foster care, reports survey results from nearly 6,000 prison inmates. The survey found that one in four prison inmates said they'd spent time ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about health and U.K. health policy. Jun 21, 2024, 08:14am EDT In this photo illustration a school student eats a ...