Photograph; Farmworkers pick tomatoes in Immokalee, Florida. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez) By Greg Kaufmann | Originally Published at This Week in Poverty: Twelve Things You Can Do To Fight Poverty Now The Nation. on May 10, 2013 9:52 AM ET This is a tough moment in the [...]
The times have changed. Poverty is less prominent in the news. President Johnson's Great Society Plan is a thing of the past. The War On Poverty that brought into being the Elementary and Secondary Education Act has long since evolved. President Johnson and Congress, at the time, [...]
Students at the Lilla G. Frederick Pilot Middle School in Dorchester, Massachusetts. (Reuters/Adam Hunger) By Greg KaufmannCo-authored with Elaine Weiss | Originally Published at The Nation. February 1, 2013 - 11:26 AM ET Researchers know a lot about how various factors associated with income level affect a [...]
Photograph By Robert F. Bukaty/Associated Press | A man sleeps on a sidewalk in the Old Port section of Portland, Maine. The Census Bureau announced in 2010 that the overall number of people living in poverty climbed. By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The [...]
America’s children seem to be shortchanged on almost every issue we face as a society. Not only are we failing to protect our children from deranged people wielding semi-automatic guns. We’re not protecting them from poverty. The rate of child poverty keeps rising – even [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | AlterNet and Daily Kos. December 17, 2012 It should not have taken the killing of 20 innocent children and 6 dedicated educators in a school, but I will not belabor that point. At a prayer vigil in Newtown, CT, [...]
Poor Kids | FRONTLINE | PBS Originally Published at Frontline. Public Broadcast Services. What does it mean to grow up poor in America? In Poor Kids, airing tonight at 10 pm on PBS (check local listings), FRONTLINE follows several of the more than 13 million children in [...]
Photograph; PREP Simone Brown helping a student at Intermediate School 292 in Brooklyn prepare for the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test, the subject of a recent lawsuit. By Ginia Bellafante | Originally Published at The New York Times. October 5, 2012 Not too long ago, I witnessed [...]
By Jared Bernstein | The American Prospect. April 22, 2007 Economists may disagree a lot on policy, but we all agree on the "education premium" -- the earnings boost associated with more education. But what role can education play in a realistic antipoverty policy agenda? And what [...]
