Child Poverty

Helping At-Risk Children Succeed in School: There's No Such Thing as Too Early

Anna M. Babin | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Child Poverty, Early Childhood Education, Helping Low-Income Students, Starting School Early, Low-Income Families, At-Risk Children, Childhood Education, Low-Income Students, Education News
Anna M. Babin

How do we help children from lower-income families achieve their full potential in school and life? One fact is sure: Start early.

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Saki Knafo

Protestors Take On The Chicago Mercantile Exchange, 15 Arrested

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Governor Pat Quinn, Cme, Home Care, Pat Quinn, Tax Breaks, Disability Servies, Ece, CME Group, Child Poverty, Cme Protests, Standup Chicago, Governor Quinn, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Early Childhood Education, Corporate Tax Breaks, Chicago News

Just days after thousands of protesters descended on Chicago to rally against the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, 15 people were arrested outside ...

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Huge Baby Food Donation In City That Needs It Most

The Huffington Post | Kate Abbey-Lambertz | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Baby Gourmet, Food Banks, Detroit Impact, Gleaners, Forgotten Harvest, Child Nutrition, Child Poverty, Detroit Baby Food, Video, Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan, Gleaners Community Food Bank, Child Poverty Detroit, Detroit Food Banks, Child Hunger, Baby Food, Baby Gourmet Donation, Detroit News

On Tuesday, Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan and Forgotten Harvest received donations that will go a long way to feed some of the...

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Preying on the Poor

Barbara Ehrenreich | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Corporate Crime, Corporate Corruption, Child Poverty, America Poverty, U.S. Poverty Rate, Poor, Politics News
Barbara Ehrenreich

Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor insanely high rates of interest.

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Working Hard to Get Back on Track

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Child Poverty, Snap Benefits, Poverty, Reconciliation Budget, Snap, Food Stamps, Economy, Budget, Jobs, Tanf, Ryan Budget, Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, Politics News
Marian Wright Edelman

Programs like Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, food stamps, and transitional housing are lifelines that work when people fall on hard times. We need to preserve them. But that's not what the Ryan "reconciliation budget" just passed by the House of Representatives would do.

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Saki Knafo

Gov. Bev Perdue's Budget Could Save Nation's Leading Early Childhood Programs, Advocates Say

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Education News, Smart Start, Early Child Development, Preschool, Gov Bev Perdue, Bev Perdue, Pre-Kindergarten Program, Child Poverty, Steve Barnett, North Carolina Pre-K, Early Childhood, Children and Poverty, More at Four, Thom Tillis, Early Childhood Education, Pre-K, North Carolina, Alexandra Sirota, Parents News

Children's advocates are applauding the latest state budget in North Carolina, hailing it as the latest victory in a long and drawn-out battle over th...

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Saki Knafo

Maurice Sendak's Legacy In A Brooklyn Library

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Literacy Poverty, Child Poverty, Brooklyn Libraries, Wild Things, Maurice Sendak Death, Sherry Shao, Carol Rasco, Brooklyn, Sendak Brooklyn, Maurice Sendak Dead, Where the Wild Things Are, Reading Is Fundamantal, Child Literacy, Maurice Sendak, Poverty Literacy, Books News

NEW YORK -- Before he made beautiful children's books that sold millions of copies, Maurice Sendak, who died yesterday at age 83, lived in Brooklyn, N...

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Saki Knafo

Bloomberg Slashes Children's Services, Contributing To What Advocates Describe As A National Crisis

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Early Childcare, Ost, Mayor Bloomberg, Richard Buery, Pre-School, After-School, Michael Bloomberg, Bloomberg Budget, Afterschool, Bloomberg Budget Cut, Child Poverty, Out-of-School Time, Nieer, United Neighborhood Houses, Campaign for Children, Children's Aid Society, Pre-K Funding, New York Budget Cuts, Pre-K, New York News

Teachers, parents and children's advocates across New York City shuddered Thursday morning as Mayor Michael Bloomberg released his executive budget: J...

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Saki Knafo

Bloomberg Budget Brawl: Children's Advocates Scramble To Save New York's State-Of-The-Art After-School System On Eve Of Massive Cuts

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: After School, Christine Quinn, Out-of-School Time, Child Poverty, Ost, Campaign for Children, Bloomberg Budget Proposal, Budget Cuts, Michael Bloomberg, Childcare, Bloomberg Budget, Afterschool, Early Childhood Education, The Children's Aid Society, New York Mayor Bloomberg, New York News

A coalition of more than 150 New York City groups, including the Children's Aid Society and the Police Athletic League, is making a last-ditch effort ...

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The Bloomberg Administration's Double Standards on Poverty and Accountability

Melissa Mark-Viverito | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Mayor Bloomberg, Child Poverty, Food Stamps, New York City Council, New York City Council Progressive Caucus, Financial Crisis, New York Impact, New York City Poverty, New York City Youth Services, New York City After School Programs, New York City Eduction, New York News
Melissa Mark-Viverito

It is clear that this administration has a double standard when it comes to accountability. Poor and working families must prove their need, at every step, in order to receive even the bare minimum of assistance.

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Safe Harbor for the Homeless

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Poverty, Unemployment Rate, Budget Cuts, Budget, Jobs, Joblessness, Recession, Child Poverty, Unemployed, Unemployment, Homelessness, Job, Homeless, Ywca, Ryan Budget, Paul Ryan Budget, Homeless Shelters, Long-Term Unemployed, US Poverty, Politics News
Marian Wright Edelman

The House Budget Committee's latest draconian budget proposes even deeper cuts in the safety net while refusing to ask the rich and powerful to contribute their fair share. Indeed, it would give them more tax breaks at the expense of poor struggling families desperately trying to get back on their feet.

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Walking The (Catholic) Plank

Sarah O'Leary | Posted 04.27.2012

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Sarah O'Leary

Why doesn't my Catholic Church get its own house in order first? Get the plank/log/boulder/semi truck/elephant out of its own eye before it tries to remove a speck from another's eye?

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Taking the Malaria Fight Down to the Community Level

Mark Hanlon | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Malaria, Child Poverty, Global Poverty, Compassion International, World Malaria Day, Health, Malaria Prevention, Malaria Education, Impact News
Mark Hanlon

Malaria remains one of the most widespread infectious diseases in Africa. Yet, insecticide treated nets are available. Medicines are available. Prevention education is available -- but to everyone?

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Saki Knafo

Head Start Agencies Slam Obama Administration

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Child Poverty, Edward Waters, Administration for Children and Families, Kathleen Sebelius, Ron Herndon, George H. Sheldon, Head Start Recompetition, Hhs, Obama, Early Childhood Education, Head Start, Barack Obama, Ece, Parents News

For decades, Head Start programs around the country didn't have to worry about getting their funding renewed. It was rare that a center lost its gover...

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We Are All in This Together

Bruce Lesley | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Child Poverty, Education, Social Security, Poverty, Youth, College, Student Debt, Tanf, Youth Unemployment, Student Loans, Stephen Marche, Impact News
Bruce Lesley

The life-long consequences for children in terms of opportunity, education, poverty, health, and the ability to fulfill their God-given potential are disturbing for the current generation of children and youth.

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Saki Knafo

The New Hotel Homeless

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Orlando, Homeless Bill, Homeless Children, Hotel Homeless, Homeless Families, Family Homelessness, Hotel Homelessness, Poor Children, Homeless Children and Youth, Kissimee, Breakdown, Toxic Stress, Child Poverty, Homeless Bill Congress, Homeless Youth, Homelessness, Hr-32, Disney World, Business News

Melissa was always on the move, wandering in and out of people's rooms, going from pool to basketball court and back to pool, climbing up the big tree...

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Foreclosure Crisis Affects Huge Number Of Children

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Child Poverty, Foreclosure Crisis, Poverty, Mortgage Settlement, Children in Recession, Kids, Children, Foreclosure Children, Kids in Recession, Foreclosure, Home Foreclosures, Video, Business News

The foreclosure crisis could end up directly affecting as many as 8.3 million children, according to a report out this week from the advocacy group Fi...

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Saki Knafo

Christine Quinn, City Council Calls Mayor Bloomberg's Cuts To Children's Service "Unacceptable"

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 04.18.2012

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Hundreds of parents, children and teachers gathered on the steps of New York's City Hall Tuesday to protest Mayor Michael Bloomberg's budget plan, whi...

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Culture of Poverty in America

Linetta J. Gilbert | Posted 04.12.2012

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Linetta J. Gilbert

The culture of poverty, i.e., the environment, institutions, individual behaviors, policies and practices of poverty in the U.S., have affected those who experience poverty as well as those who are observers to its conditions.

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Want to Fight Poverty? Give Someone a Stage

Keith Weissglass | Posted 04.11.2012

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Keith Weissglass

Ask a young person today, "How can you make the world a better place?" Few will reply, "Go to business school!"

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An Idea Whose Time Has Come: Moving From Pilots to Policy

Richard Buery | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: New York City Schools, Child Poverty, Education, Poverty, The Children's Aid Society, New York City Poverty, Achievement Gap, Education News
Richard Buery

On the evening of March 27, one of our community schools located in Washington Heights, a heavily Dominican neighborhood, hosted an event with potential implications for education policy in New York City and across the country.

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Child Poverty May Be Slowing, Report Finds

Posted 03.29.2012

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The dramatic rate at which Colorado youth have been slipping into poverty seems to have finally come to a standstill this year, according to data rele...

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Keeping the Focus on Children in a Tough Economy

William Roberts | Posted 05.21.2012

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William Roberts

Parents are facing daily questions about how to provide for their families, spend their money and share their time. Should they spend their latest pay check on food or rent? How can they spend time with their children while working two jobs?

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In Defense of Facing Reality

Diane Ravitch | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Public Schools, Michelle Rhee, Child Poverty, Teach for America, Education Reform, Wendy Kopp, Achievement Gap, Education News
Diane Ravitch

We will have to learn to hold two ideas at the same time: We must both reduce poverty and improve our schools. We cannot fix our schools without strengthening the teaching profession and addressing the social conditions that shape their outcomes.

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Rediscovering Poverty

Barbara Ehrenreich | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Child Poverty, U.S. Poverty Rate, Unemployment, Poverty, Unemployment Rate, Poverty in America, Poverty Rate, Politics News
Barbara Ehrenreich

By the Reagan era, the "culture of poverty" had become a cornerstone of conservative ideology: poverty was caused, not by low wages or a lack of jobs, but by bad attitudes and faulty lifestyles.

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