Lattimore, like many educators, feels overwhelmed and underpaid. "I don't know anyone in education with no second job," she told NBC News. Instead of working on weekends as a barista or in retail, she ...

What a cruel irony: The president whose policy obsession from Day 1 in the Oval Office has been not to grow the economy but to reduce income inequality has presided over a near-record surge in the ...

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The United States has one of the highest rates of childhood poverty in the developed world. More than 11 million American children lived in poverty in 2019, a figure that’s expected to grow once data ...

As any parent can attest to, videos for kids to watch on YouTube that are fun, educational, and don't drive you up a wall can be a challenge. That's why it's nice to have a heavy rotation of kids ...

St. Louis is a poor city. Its school district serves a higher share of children living in poverty than 95% of communities nationwide. Decades of research has shown that growing up in poverty hurts ...

Schools are paying for cookers, beds and food for families living in poverty, school leaders have said. More pupils are missing out on extracurricular activities and school trips as families cannot ...

The nation’s poverty rate rose last year and among children it more than doubled from 2021 to 2022 as pandemic-era benefits that kept many families afloat expired, the U.S. Census Bureau reported ...