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(Action for Children)--The recession continues to take a heavy toll on children and families in North Carolina as current economic conditions are expected to remain similar to those of a year ago--and much worse than they were in 2007, according to...

A new paper by The Urban Institute examines four critical questions related to the lasting impact of child poverty. What share of newborns is poor, and how often do these children remain poor? What family characteristics relate most strongly to childhood...

(03/27/12) GOLDSBORO, N.C. - More than 500,000 North Carolina children are living in poverty, and more than half of them are living in extreme poverty, according to the Children's Defense Fund, as their parents struggle to overcome job loss...

Today the Budget and Tax Center released a brief, "Barriers to Opportunity: The Growing Problem of Concentrated Poverty in North Carolina's Neighborhoods", that takes a look at the impact of high-poverty neighborhoods on the well-being of its inhabitants. Using...

A study by the Annie E. Casey Foundation  finds that students who don’t read proficiently by third grade are four times more likely to leave without a diploma than proficient readers. The report--Double Jeopardy: How Poverty & Third Grade Reading...

  Watch this video on VideoSurf or see more Dylan Ratigan Videos or Childhood (Robin Hoo Videos MSNBC's Dan Ratigan focuses on early childhood education. He emphasized, "Educating our kids early, from birth, is the key to restoring economic vitality and...

The National Women’s Law Center recently launched a Tax Credits Outreach Campaign to ensure that more families know to claim available federal and state income tax credits. They have fliers for every state showing federal and state tax credits and...

Growing up poor can suppress a child's genetic potential to excel cognitively even before the age of 2, according to research from psychologists at The University of Texas at Austin. The researchers looked at test results from twins who had...

North Carolina's Abecedarian Project is once again making news. Science Daily reports that researchers found that individuals who had received the intensive education intervention starting in infancy had significantly better health and better health behaviors as young adults. The Abecedarian project...

On Thursday January 13, leaders of the Children’s Defense Fund and the Black Community Crusade for Children (BCCC) will release two studies showing the deepening crisis facing America’s Black children and young adults. Marian Wright Edelman and Geoffrey Canada...