Nationally, 22.2% rural children are living in poverty – more than 1 in 5 kids – in comparison to 17.7% of children living in non-rural communities. Rural child poverty is higher than non-rural in 39 ...

The cancellations, set to apply to pending and active grants, also affect research into “forever chemicals” contaminating the ...

I think that they are going to, in the next four years, do all they can to try to dismantle the Head Start program,” says ...

The latest edition of the nonprofit Rural School and Community Trust’s 50-state report on rural education reveals that nearly 1 in 6 of the nation’s 7.5 million students living in rural areas lives ...

That’s why we offer effective school-based child literacy programs to children living in poverty right here in the United States ... works to fill critical gaps in early learning across rural America ...

State of the Union address, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared an “unconditional war on poverty in America,” which began ...

The most common conditions of maltreatment include parental drug and alcohol abuse, severe mental illness, domestic violence and the presence of nonrelative males in a home. Money alone is not a fix.

Poverty differences cut across gender, ethnicity, age, residence (rural versus urban), and income source. In households, children and women often suffer more than men. In the community, minority ...