Childhood poverty numbers have doubled. There are now 9 million poor kids and economic problems, our failing education system and the fatherhood crisis all contribute.

Poverty researchers point to studies — some applicable, some less so — suggesting that the money will dramatically change the futures of America’s poor kids. I’m skeptical.

Only in America: Four years into life, poor kids are already an entire year behind. December 17, 2015 (Ty Beaver/The Tri-City Herald via AP) By Roberto A. Ferdman.

FRONTLINE continues its reporting on child poverty in America — revisiting the kids from its 2012 film, and offering a powerful, firsthand look at what poverty means to children and the country.

Children were particularly hard-hit, with the poverty rate for kids doubling compared with 2021. The surge in poverty is "stunning," Sharon Parrott, president of the Center on Budget and Policy ...

America’s Poor Kids meets three children - 10-year-old Kaylie, 10-year-old Sera and 13-year-old Johnny - whose families are struggling to get by, ...

One reason it’s harder to escape poverty in America. Poor kids in the US are likely to become poor adults. More government support during adulthood could change that.

That’s not to say that poverty in America is comparable to that in poor countries. American kids may go to bed hungry, but very few are stunted from malnutrition, compared with 38 percent of ...

Join a chat for "Poor Kids" with the film's producer Jezza Neumann, author Alex Kotlowitz and poverty expert Ron Haskins, Wednesday 11/21 at 12 pm ET. You can leave a question now.

Recent discussions of poverty have revealed themselves to be, in fact, coded conversations about race. When Newt Gingrich talks about poor kids having no work ethic and Donald Trump agrees, they ...

Analyzing data covering a near universe of Americans born from 1978 to 1992, the researchers found that when employment among the poor parents of children in a community improves, those children ...

Currently, about 18 percent of kids are below the poverty line, amounting to 13,250,000 children. Other Anglo countries have lower child-poverty rates: the OECD puts Canada’s at 15 percent, with the ...