How small changes to federal housing policy could make a big difference for poor kids, By Emily Badger, October 15, 2014, Washington Post: “Children are shaped in profound ways by the neighborhoods where they grow up. Perhaps this sounds like common sense (why else do we fret over where to raise them?). But it’s borne out by research, too. High-poverty neighborhoods can be bad for children’s health, school performance and even cognitive development. Low-poverty ones, meanwhile, often mean they have access to better schools and do better academically as a result. It makes sense, then, that when we subsidize housing for poor families…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty