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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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, ...

Childhood poverty in the U.S. fell to its lowest level in history in 2021. The fall was largely due to the expanded child tax credit and other COVID-19 pandemic supports that put cash directly in the ...

MOLINE -- Many children arrive at school in dirty clothes, with an empty stomach and a lingering memory of an explosive, physical argument between family members. The challenge at school for those ...