Millions of children in America endure a cycle of poverty and food insecurity, often with seemingly few resources to ever break free. But a number of outstanding educational and community efforts ...

In the United States, 42 million people live in poverty. Nearly 40% of single-mother households are impoverished, and alarmingly, 1 in 3 children raised in poverty stay impoverished through adulthood.

While the problem may seem overwhelming, numerous success stories and innovative strategies have demonstrated that breaking the cycle of poverty is possible. From grassroots efforts to policy ...

Means-tested financial help for students undertaking ‘pracs’ for certain degrees has been welcomed, but some say it should be ...

Youth at risk, when inadequately supported in informal educational settings, are at high risk of perpetuating the cycle of poverty into the next generation. Despite widespread recognition of the ...

Disrupting the cycle of poverty isn’t about focusing on one person in the family. It’s about centering the entire family and building a rich, supportive, and deeply responsive community that can hold ...

Poverty has far-reaching effects on the economy, resulting in a vicious cycle of low productivity, limited development of human capital, and stunted economic progress. “Poverty indexes are ...

Once you start getting an understanding of the opportunity you actually have, it’s a way to break that [poverty] cycle,” he says. “When I was five years old, I wanted to find a job where I ...

Across our campuses, we’ve seen how investing in both the mother and the child creates a robust foundation for families to ...

Minister of Women Affairs, Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim, has urged parents, community and religious leaders to invest in girls’ education to break the cycle of poverty. She described education as a ...