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Why This Economist Wants to Give Every Poor Child $50,000
The economist Darrick Hamilton discusses how policy proposals like “baby bonds” could help the country move toward greater racial and economic equity.
How One State's Budget Cuts Are Trapping Poor Parents
“It’s not like I’m asking for the money to go shopping or something frivolous. I’m asking to send my child to school.”
Why Childcare Workers Are So Poor, Even Though Childcare Costs So Much
They can't even afford daycare for their own kids.
Warren Buffett Wants to Help Your Child Start a Small Business This Summer
Here are some kid-friendly business ideas and how make them successful.
Building Adult Capabilities to Improve Child Outcomes: A Theory of Change
This 5-minute video depicts a theory of change from the Frontiers of Innovation community for achieving breakthrough outcomes for vulnerable children and fam...
10 Things to Do When a Foster Child Is Returning Home
What do you do when a foster child is returning home? If you’ve had a foster child in your home for any length of time, you know how easy it is for foster parents to get attached. However, since reunification is always the original goal of foster care, what can a foster parent do when […]
This cartoon explains how the rich got rich and the poor got poor
Perspective: the root of what causes gender-based violence
Meet a PATH employee who’s working to make a difference by understanding the connections between poor health and gender-based violence.
How free preschool may help poor kids when they become parents
A major federal investment in poor children shows signs of paying off years later.
The real reason why poor kids perform worse in school
The World Bank is supposed to help the poor. So why is it bankrolling oligarchs?
The bank's private investment arm is increasingly chasing profits at the expense of its anti-poverty mission.
When I first met my child
Meeting your child for the very first time can be just as powerful and life-changing as when someone meets their child in the delivery room.
What Happens When You Just Give Money To Poor People?
Kenyans who received money with no strings attached started businesses and bought food for their kids, according to a new study. They didn't spend it on alcohol or cigarettes.
Finding the Right Mentor for Your Child
When you reflect on your own life, you can probably pin point the key adults that helped to inspire and support you over the course of your childhood and adolescence. Whether it was someone you met through a formalized mentoring program or people you knew through your school, church or community, these folks helped to shape you into the person that you have become. It is important that all kids have positive adult role models, besides their parents, throughout their lives. Research has…
Want to Change the World? Sponsor a Child
A top economist shares the astounding news about that little picture hanging on our refrigerator.
5 Questions to Ask a Child Psychologist
Find the right psychologist for your child and your family.
3 Questions to Ask Your Child Every Night
Ask your child these 3 questions every night to help your child learn how to verbally express themselves and to help you learn about their day.
Learned Helplessness: Are You Doing Too Much for Your Child?
Under functioners are skilled in the art of learned helplessness. They have quite literally learned to be helpless, because someone was always there to pick up the pieces for them.
Why the poor can't afford to eat better
Most Americans are eating better — more whole grains and fresh produce — than they were 12 years ago. But those are the very foods that low-income families can't afford.
