Pandemic Threatens to Drive Unprecedented Number of Children into Learning Poverty
The COVID-19 pandemic could drive up learning poverty, the share of 10-year-olds who cannot read a basic text, to around 70 percent in...
Covid-19 Has Exacerbated Child Poverty In The U.S., Forcing A Long Overdue Policy Focus
Before Covid-19, the poverty rate in America had been on a slow decline, but the pandemic has stalled—if not reversed—that progress....
Covid’s Hidden Toll: One Million Children Who Lost Parents
PISCO, Peru—Several nights a week, 4-year-old Sofia Felices jolts awake in tears and calls out for her mother, who used to cuddle her...
