Public schools in America are becoming testing grounds for a tenuous theory: that poverty can be avoided by making three choices in the right order. Tennessee lawmakers passed a bill this month ...

When President Lyndon B. Johnson declared an “unconditional war on poverty” in 1964, the nation didn’t have any method of counting the poor, or even a firm notion of how poverty should be ...

Growing Up in America. All children are born ready to learn, but for 15 million children living in poverty in America, they enter school unready to succeed. Before even walking through the classroom ...

Sociologist Matthew Desmond seeks answers in his new book “Poverty, By America. ... The number of homeless kids in our public schools are up 74%. Since the Great Recession, ...

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.

The idea is that kids everywhere should have the same opportunities to learn and graduate as, say, students in high-poverty schools in the Delta. Thank God for Mississippi.

Last week’s report that Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools now has 102 schools with poverty levels of 75% or higher left a lot of us scratching our heads. That’s more than half the district’s 183 ...

The insistence on personal agency is even more explicit in Desmond’s new book. “Poverty, by America” is a compact jeremiad on the persistence of extreme want in a nation of extraordinary ...

The child poverty rate has hit a five-year high in America as families continue to deal with high prices for groceries and housing.. That rate surged from 12.4 percent in 2022 to 13.7 percent in ...

The controversial anti-poverty solution coming to public schools. The “success sequence” has many critics, but lawmakers and parents don’t seem to care.