The nearly 100 undergraduate students enrolled in the Princeton University course "Sociology 207: Poverty in America" listened quietly as Trenton native Michael Nelson recited from memory a poem he ...

COLUMBUS — Misconceptions about poverty and the impoverished abound. That’s one reason Early Head Start coordinating manager Nikki McPhillips says it’s important to educate people on the realities of ...

Many teenage mothers who have dropped out of high school and live in poverty likely have their hands full providing for their children. Pondering the ideas of ancient philosophers and writing essays ...

People who want to strengthen their community and help move neighbors from poverty to self-sufficiency are invited to participate in a “Bridges Out of Poverty” workshop that will begin next week at ...

The University of Iowa’s water-poverty course offered through the India Winterim Study Abroad Program will get a boost after receiving a U.S.-India 21st Century Knowledge Initiative Award. The award ...

New research explores the wide disparities in advanced high school course-taking (such as Advanced Placement courses) among race, poverty, and gender groups in Florida. The latest research from the ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Getting Ahead is a 16-week course put on by Interfaith Community Services (ICS) and other agencies across Tucson and Pima County. The main focus is getting people out of or ...

Each day 66 million primary school-aged children across the developing world attend classes hungry. Poor nutrition causes 45 per cent of deaths in children under age five - that's 3.1 million children ...

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 28, No. 4 (Fall 2009), pp. 555-576 (22 pages) We use panel data on Florida high school students to examine race, poverty, and gender disparities in ...

We sat down with Panagiotis, who took EC104: The Wealth (and Poverty) of Nations: Global Economic Development Past and Present, to hear more about his experience of the course. Why did you decide to ...