America's Diversity of Children

A report from First Focus, Living on the Edge: America’s Low-Earning Families, finds that 40 percent of all children — 30 million kids — grow up in households in which their parents are employed, yet the family still struggles with making ends meet.

This report, authored by Jane Waldfogel, Ph.D. of Columbia University and the London School of Economics finds that following a successful, decade-long campaign to reduce child poverty by half, the United Kingdom has taken concrete steps to maintain its commitment to reduce child poverty in the midst of deficit reduction, even following a change in government.

This full-length documentary film, directed by Luis Argueta, weaves together the personal stories of the individuals, the children, the families, and the town directly affected by one of the largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in the United States.

A new report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, written by Donald J. Hernandez, finds that children who have lived in poverty and are not reading proficiently in 3rd Grade are three times more likely to dropout or fail to graduate from High School than those who have never been poor.

The Latino population in the United States is growing at a rapid pace, and the proportion of our nation’s youngest learners who are Latino is increasing even faster.

A Funder’s Guide to Addressing the Educational Opportunities and Challenges Facing English Language Learners Ten percent of elementary school students are English Language Learners (ELLs). They are the most rapidly growing groups in U.S. elementary schools.

Abstract With a focus on the United States, this paper addresses the basic social indicators question: How are we doing?

Middle-Class Children Falling Further Behind Declining Prospects for Middle Class Kids Will Be Worsened by Budget Cuts NEW YORK, NY – America’s middle-class children have been steadily falling further behind their more privileged peers for the past quarter century – but the worst of the fallout has been held in check by essential policies and programs that could be unraveled, depending on key budget decisions, according to a new study released by the Foundation for Child Development.