Child Poverty in America

Stephen Shames

Alicia Patterson Foundation

Philadelphia - Gwendolyn Toler, 20, cooks for 13 people including her five children. “Sometimes I get tired,” she says. The house where she lives lacks some windows, has a toilet that does not flush, a sink without a drain, and is often without heat on the second and third floors.

Stephen Shames, "Child Poverty in America," in POYi Archive, Item #13602, http://archive.poy.org/items/show/13602 (accessed April 20, 2025).