Mar. 14—TRAVERSE CITY — A new report shines a revealing spotlight on poverty in the mitten state — and the million-plus Michigan families and children struggling to survive at the bottom. The report ...

The implications of this cycle for Jamaica’s economic development are profound. Violence acts as a regressive tax on the ...

ANN ARBOR, MI -- Improving the narrative around poverty in the United States and promoting a better understanding of structural inequity is the focus of an upcoming University of Michigan virtual ...

Last spring, Ciera Pritchett watched her life fall apart. As the coronavirus pandemic swept the country in March 2020, she first lost her job as a cook and food server at a private school in Savannah, ...

A new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggests that growing up in poverty may influence the wiring of a child's brain. The study, published June 27 in JAMA Network ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Emphasizing that race is not a biological construct, but rather a social construct, a speaker contended that the ...

Soweto township in Johannesburg, one of the enduring legacies of apartheid. DocDee/Wikimedia. Some rights reserved. Over a period of almost three months in 1998 ...

ITHACA, N.Y. – Leveraging national surveys, big data, and machine learning, Cornell University researchers have developed a new approach to mapping poverty that could help policymakers and NGOs better ...

Poverty is endemic in regions of subsistence agriculture and mineral-rich areas. This should be addressed ...

Energy poverty is defined as the inability of a household to access essential energy services, such as heating, cooling and electricity, required for a decent standard of living and health. Three main ...

A study reveals that household and community poverty may influence brain health in children. Childhood obesity and lower cognitive function may explain, at least partially, poverty's influence on the ...