Poor kids in the US are likely to become poor adults. More government support during adulthood could change that.

While mobility among the children of poor white families slid backward, children born into poor Black families in 1992 were ...

Children born into poverty are far more likely to remain poor in adulthood in the United States than in other wealthy countries. Why? The stickiness of poverty in the U.S. challenges the self ...

Black and white children were especially in a position to ... and passed down skills which allowed them to supplement their poor diet and inadequate medical care with hunting, fishing, gathering ...