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 ...

Around 1 in 5 children today are living in extreme poverty, according to new World Bank-UNICEF research. In 2024, an estimated 412 million children aged 17 or younger were residing in households ...

When floodwaters washed away Woudou Oumar's home in northern Cameroon, he and his family lost not only shelter but hope. Then ...

The president’s 2024 budget, released today, calls for reinstating the 2021 expansion of the Child Tax Credit, which dramatically reduced child poverty. The temporary effect of that one-year expansion ...

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 ...

In Germany, 17.6 million people, corresponding to 21.2% of the country's population last year, were at risk of poverty or social exclusion. One in five people in the country experienced these ...

Most of the people who showed up on Feb. 20 to mourn the passing of 2-year-old A'millah Currie and 9-year-old Darnell Currie Jr., who died in the freezing winter inside a car in a casino parking ...

For most of us, Columbia is such a great place to live and work, still small-town, with plenty of culture, innovation, and education. But beneath its heavily academic veneer lies a stark reality: the ...

New York is the only state with a refundable child tax credit that excludes low-income families from accessing the maximum amount, limiting its anti-poverty effect, experts say. If the governor’s ...

Time may be the most important resource there is. “Time poverty” refers to experiencing a lack of sufficient time to fulfill responsibilities, pursue interests, or engage in activities that contribute ...