For all our divisions, Americans have been united by a singular obsession: How can we have a better life? Economists call ...

Teachers in Mpumalanga and Free State Provinces blamed low enrollment and poor attendance in the upper primary grades on the fact that children on farms were engaged in farm work. 102 In El ...

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 ...

Drawers dragged truckloads of coal to the surface. Older children operated the mine shaft pulleys. Pay and working conditions were poor and life expectancy short. Students could discuss the ...

Health care is likewise poor. Some 35 percent of children under the age of 5 are malnourished based on height for age and when the pilot cash transfer program was implemented, only about half of ...