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Oklahoma City Public Schools students show off their new winter coats last year, courtesy of the OKCPS Foundation’s Coat-A-Kid program. It’s August, and it is hot outside. Yes, it happens every year.

Poverty is a serious condition that afflicts millions of people around the world. Particularly distressing is when poverty affects the lives of children. Poverty can cause hunger, poor living ...

High school is an important developmental time for every student, and the quality of the school a kid attends can make all the difference. UCLA researchers surveyed about 900 economically ...

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 ...

A teacher works with a student on numbers in the Fort Osage School District. Many schools in Missouri invested in learning mentors and tutors after the pandemic began to help students academically ...

The number of Ohioans in poverty stayed steady from last year, but the number of children living in poverty is concerning the state’s community action agencies, which work with low-income people. The ...

Nearly two million New Yorkers lived in poverty in 2022, up 500,000 people from the previous year, according to a report released Wednesday. The city’s poverty rate increased from 18% in 2021 to 23% ...

The latest Kids Count report shows fewer children in Missouri and Kansas lived in poverty in 2023 compared to pre-pandemic years, but many are still struggling to rebound from reading and math ...