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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Assistant professor, School of Psychology, Scientist, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa Nicole Racine receives funding from the ...

It is now 33 years since the United Nations (UN) established the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.

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 ...

Search online for images of “child poverty” and your screen will dance with filthy streetscapes, dilapidated and crowded-together structures, and trash and debris littering the foundations of tall ...

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 ...