With cuts to SNAP and other programs, families will struggle even harder to afford groceries, millions of kids may lose free school meals ... and it gets worse.

The lives of children from rich and poor American families look more different than ever before. Well-off families are ruled by calendars, with children enrolled in ballet, soccer and after-school ...

Poverty can follow children into adulthood, affecting their long-term physical and mental health, and making it harder to finish school and climb out of poverty.

Watch Poor Kids Preview on PBS. See more from FRONTLINE. In Frontline’s latest documentary, Poor Kids, children are all too aware of their family’s financial situation. With one in five ...

Children start out very similarly up until about 2. ... My parents, even as poor black children, could pursue their dreams growing up in the 1960s, when opportunity was expanding for all.

"Putnam County is very bad for income mobility for children in poor families. It is better than only about 18 percent of counties. " St. Johns County is very bad for income mobility for children ...

That’s 5.1 million children pushed into misery, for it really is miserable to be poor in America. And the thing is, this didn’t have to happen. Soaring child poverty wasn’t caused by ...

The safety net might be enough to keep America’s poor children going, but that’s not enough; neither, in the end, are songs, however beautiful. What they need is a ladder.

In 2015, it cost nearly $100 billion to fund the dependent exemption, the dependent care credit, food stamps targeted toward children, and five different school nutrition programs.

Many of the 1.5 million children in the U.S. whose parents divorce every year feel as if their worlds are falling apart. Divorcing parents are usually very concerned about the welfare of their ...