Research has shown that growing up in poverty is correlated with bad outcomes, cognitive development and school performance. But correlationa work really doesn't speak to causality. How do you run a randomized trial on that? So noble help design and run exactly such a trial. It's called baby's first years.
Among O.E.C.D. nations, the U.S. has one of the highest rates of child poverty. Until recently, it looked as if Washington was about to change that. But then … Washington happened.