In a recent study published in Frontiers in Medicine, a group of researchers investigated whether the combination of chronic inflammation and poverty synergistically increases the 15-year risk of ...

Without Congressional action, the recently released National Academy of Sciences report, “An Updated Measure of Poverty: (Re)Drawing the Line,” could have substantial effects on government program ...

Stephen Roll, Jenn Finders, and Leah Hamilton Childhood poverty in the U.S. fell to its lowest level in history in 2021. The ...

Decentralized trial recruitment methods to facilitate broad coverage across urban and rural counties for a blood-based test in early colorectal cancer detection. The effect of a multilevel community ...

Republicans and Democrats both acknowledge the erosion of the middle class. They differ on solutions to the problem. Left out of the public discourse discussion are the poor who, both parties seem to ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Once these safety net changes expired at the end of 2021, childhood poverty rebounded, ...

The U.S. measure of poverty is an important social indicator that affects not only public perceptions of well-being in America, but also public policies and programs. The current measure was ...

President Johnson meets with four leaders of the civil rights movement, discussing the president's war on poverty, and the ...