Head Start and Early Head Start programs are designed to holistically nurture the educational, health, and socio-emotional welfare of children from low-income backgrounds. These programs are the ...

For most of us, Columbia is such a great place to live and work, still small-town, with plenty of culture, innovation, and education. But beneath its heavily academic veneer lies a stark reality: the ...

Earlier in the year Caroline Hoxby and Christopher Avery made a splash with research that showed high achieving low-income students are less likely than their wealthier counterparts to apply to ...

What determines mental health, school performance, and even cognitive development? A new review in De Gruyter's Reviews in the Neurosciences suggests that poverty and low socioeconomic status (SES) ...

After the pandemic, the gap between rich and poor has widened dramatically worldwide, and Norway and the United States are no exception. In the U.S., about one in five kids are growing up in families ...

Republicans and Democrats both acknowledge the erosion of the middle class. They differ on solutions to the problem. Left out of the public discourse discussion are the poor who, both parties seem to ...

New York is one of the wealthiest states in this country. And yet its child poverty rate — over 20% — is one of the highest in the country. As a pediatrician in Albany for the past 20 years, I have ...