Child Poverty in America

Stephen Shames

Alicia Patterson Foundation

Chicago - Last summer, Lafayette Walton, 10, saw a young girl get shot in the leg outside the project where they both live. She was jumping rope and got caught in a gang crossfire. “I’m scared to sleep by myself,” he says.

Stephen Shames, "Child Poverty in America," in POYi Archive, Item #13599, http://archive.poy.org/items/show/13599 (accessed April 20, 2025).