Essay: THE POOR AMIDST PROSPERITY. 14 minute read. ... The Government is battering at poverty from all sides: the aid-to-education bill, the rent-subsidy housing bill, medicare, ...

“Words are not seen as being very effective in generational poverty to resolve differences; fists are,” (2006, ¶ 3) she has written in her brief essay, “Reflections on Katrina and the Role ...

A 12th-grader wrote a college admissions essay about wanting to pursue a career in oceanography. Let’s call her Isabella. A few months ago, we edited it in my classroom during lunch.

Land is the author of Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education and Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay and a Mother's Will to Survive Seven years out from needing to use food stamps, and ...

Instead of attending school, millions of children are exploited in forced labor. But education itself can be a key solution to tackling child labor, writes law professor Jonathan Todres.

David Osborne and Tressa Pankovits’s Dec. 8 Local Opinions essay, “Poor children are still left behind in DCPS schools,” argued that D.C. Public Schools should replace its failing schools ...

The Poverty Line Act will be high on Long Island Cares' list of legislative priorities for 2025. This guest essay reflects the views of Paule Pachter, president and chief executive of Long Island ...