Published in February 2019 by the National Academies Press, A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty is a consensus study report compiled at the request of the US Congress with the goals of "conduct[ing] a comprehensive study of child poverty in the United States [and] identify[ing] evidence-based programs and policies for reducing the number of children living in poverty by half within 10 years." The...
The Progressive Era marks a time in American history when popular conceptions of childhood were in transition. As the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) explains, many Progressive Era reformers, including those who protested child labor laws and sought to institute education reforms, "sought to define what a happy and healthy childhood should be in the modern age." With this DPLA exhibition,...