Watch the prologue from "Born Poor" — a documentary made over 14 years that follows kids in three families who try to overcome poverty from childhood through the teen years to young adulthood.

One in 10 children have missed school because they lacked essentials like clean clothes or period products, says, MD at ...

Directed by Elliot Kirschner, "The Last Class" documents Reich's final months in the classroom, blending lecture footage with ...

Period poverty is a public health issue that can impact Black and brown women at disproportionate rates in this country. (Photo: Adobe Stock) The leaders of The Flow Initiative discuss period poverty, ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — An invisible struggle is facing teenagers who menstruate, according to new research by the Children’s Hospital in Washington, D.C. The research revealed the statistic that a third of ...

FPWA, formerly the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, is an anti-poverty organization in New York City that advocates for policies and initiatives that support New Yorkers living in poverty.

A study led by a sociologist at Trinity College Dublin has found that stress caused by poverty directly impacts children. The findings contradict mainstream theoretical models of poverty which hold ...

Income inequality has significantly increased in the United States since the 1980s (Pew Research Center, 2020). The wealth gap between America’s richest and poorer families more than doubled between ...

When Sabrina Natasha Browne runs out of menstrual hygiene products, she, like a lot of people, goes to CVS and pays the $12 to $15 it may cost to replenish her supply. Up until four years ago, she ...