Feb 12 In world’s poorest slums, landfills and polluted rivers become a child’s playground By Ariel Min Children living among rubbish and human waste are especially susceptible to diarrheal diseases and pneumonia, the top killers of children under 5 worldwide. In this photo essay from Reuters, photographers capture “playgrounds” built among landfills and junkyards, and children swimming… Continue reading
Feb 04 Watch In rural West Virginia, schools help grandparents who are parenting for the second time By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jan 24 Watch 8:14 Living with a record: How past crimes may drive job seekers into poverty By PBS News Hour Applicants with criminal backgrounds, including those with nonviolent criminal convictions or even arrests, are increasingly being driven into poverty. Even if it has been years since they've served time for past criminal infractions, those applying for jobs are often unable… Continue watching
Jan 18 Watch 4:13 With more U.S. students living in poverty, education system faces strain By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jan 16 New report shows majority of U.S. students are low-income By Corinne Segal The report measured poverty among students by the number of those that qualified for free and reduced lunch. Continue reading
Dec 10 A food stamps success story By Miles Corak A yawning gap has opened up between market income poverty rates and total income poverty rates, which can only be heralded as a major success story for out-of-work assistance, particularly those components under federal control, argues economist Miles Corak. Continue reading
Oct 27 Deepest state cuts led to highest tuitions for lower-income students By Kyla Calvert Mason Five years into the economic recovery, 31 states have yet to return to funding higher education at the same levels they did in 2007. Even in many states where funding has bounced back, increasing enrollment has kept per-student spending from… Continue reading
Oct 18 Watch 8:38 Will Promise Zone initiative lift Eastern Kentucky’s coal country out of poverty? By PBS News Hour Fifty years after President Lyndon Johnson visited Kentucky and declared the War on Poverty, the area of Eastern Kentucky continues to struggle with high unemployment rates, poverty, and the loss of thousands of coal-industry jobs. NewsHour Weekend's Megan Thompson reports… Continue watching
Oct 18 National poverty rate drops slightly, but suburban poverty still bleak By Megan Thompson The poverty rate in the U.S. registered its first drop in the U.S. since 2006, the U.S. Census Bureau reported, falling from 15 percent in 2012 to 14.5 percent in 2013, but the situation remains bleak in American suburbs. Continue reading
Oct 01 Watch Cutting higher ed costs for Chicago’s disadvantaged students By PBS News Hour In Chicago, two initiatives were launched to improve access to higher education for lower-income students. To explore the strategies that community colleges and the University of Chicago are planning to use to attract these students, Jeffrey Brown speaks with Robert… Continue watching