A seat at the table: how one Massachusetts city is overcoming childhood hunger
50 years of US government action against poverty, which began with Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty, has resulted in modest reductions in overall poverty levels. However, childhood poverty remains pernicious. According to the National Center on Childhood Poverty, more than 20% of US kids live in households below the poverty line. It is key to understand that the solution to the problem of childhood poverty lies along the intersection of educational and socio-economic policy making, not in one domain or…