childhood poverty Archive

You may have been wondering why people were walking around with red clown noses a few weeks ago. If you weren’t aware, it was the first Red Nose Day here in the U.S. The fundraiser started in England in 1988 …

The number of children living in extreme poverty—on $2.00 or less per person per day in a household—grew significantly from 1996 until 2011.  In 2011, 3.55 million children in 1.65 million households were living in extreme poverty in a given …