High-school students attend a college and career convention at the Los Angeles Convention Center on December 8, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. KEVORK DJANSEZIAN/GETTY IMAGES There’s a new player in the cluster of non-profit organizations that help high-achieving students from low-income families get into the best colleges in the nation and they’re employing a simple strategy to entice qualified students: If you get into the […]
Data recently released by the Annie E. Casey Foundation shows that over the last decade, there has been a significant decline in economic well-being for low-income children and families. The official child poverty rate, which is a conservative measure of economic hardship, increased 18 percent between 2000 and 2009, essentially returning to the same level […]
Data recently released by the Annie E. Casey Foundation shows that over the last decade, there has been a significant decline in economic well-being for low-income children and families. The official child poverty rate, which is a conservative measure of economic hardship, increased 18 percent between 2000 and 2009, essentially returning to the same level […]
