One in five American children now live in families with incomes below the povertyline, and their prospects are not bright. Low income is statistically linked wi

The first of the UN Millennium Goals was to reduce extreme poverty and in 2014 it was halved compared to 1990, and now the goal is to eradicate poverty and hung

This volume documents the continuing growth of concentrated poverty in central cities of the United States and examines what is known about its causes and effec

The strengths and abilities children develop from infancy through adolescence are crucial for their physical, emotional, and cognitive growth, which in turn hel

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. What matters most in how poverty shapes children’s wellbeing and development? How can data inform social policy