For most of us, Columbia is such a great place to live and work, still small-town, with plenty of culture, innovation, and education. But beneath its heavily academic veneer lies a stark reality: the ...

After the pandemic, the gap between rich and poor has widened dramatically worldwide, and Norway and the United States are no exception. In the U.S., about one in five kids are growing up in families ...

How will you address child hunger? What will you do to make health care more accessible for low-income families with children? In what way would you improve the child welfare system? These are just a ...

As a developmental-behavioral pediatrician who has worked in Hartford for over 40 years, I am acutely aware of the devastating impact of poverty on children’s health, development and wellbeing. SB 456 ...

Head Start and Early Head Start programs are designed to holistically nurture the educational, health, and socio-emotional welfare of children from low-income backgrounds. These programs are the ...

In the United States, 42 million people live in poverty. Nearly 40% of single-mother households are impoverished, and alarmingly, 1 in 3 children raised in poverty stay impoverished through adulthood.

Q4 [healthiest] represented the highest quartile of the lifestyle score. Hazard ratios were adjusted for enrollment source, sex, race, household size, area deprivation index, education, marital status ...

Income inequality has significantly increased in the United States since the 1980s (Pew Research Center, 2020). The wealth gap between America’s richest and poorer families more than doubled between ...

Five years after the Covid-19 pandemic shuttered schools, sent students into remote learning and changed the way parents view the role of education, lasting impacts remain. Over the next few weeks, ...

The newly reconstituted Daily Trust Board of Economists has outlined ways which the federal government can tackle multidimensional poverty in Nigeria. The Board was inaugurated on Saturday, August 30, ...