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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

How can we improve the earnings of poor children when they become adults? The best way is to raise their educational attainment and skills. The evidence suggests we should invest more resources in ...

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.

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 ...

Among parents with children in K-12 schools, those who rate their neighborhood as only fair or poor are also less satisfied with the quality of the education their children are receiving. Only 38% are ...

Connor Biscan walks very fast to get home to beat a thunderstorm that was entering the area after fishing at Silver Lake. (Jesse Costa/WBUR) Why hundreds of thousands of poor, disabled children ...