I knew early on that I wanted to be a reporter, but I didn't know I was a political journalist until my first job in Boston, in the '70s, covering the public school committee at a time when busing was a huge issue. Children's lives were being directly affected by political decisions, and that's when I realized that everything is politics.
It's never too late to move to a good place to try to improve your child's outcomes in adulthood.
If you take the same child and put them in two different places, it will dramatically shape the way in which their economic outcomes are realized later in life.
Poor children in Baltimore face even worse odds than low-income kids elsewhere, mostly because they remain in impoverished neighborhoods.
