To identify the 25 cities hit hardest by extreme poverty, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed five-year data on concentrated poverty from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 American Community Survey. Metropolitan areas ...

Out of all age groups, children are still most likely to live in poverty, according to new research from the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) at Columbia University's Mailman School of ...

Could reducing poverty go hand-in-hand with reducing the risk of developing dementia, the kind in which an elderly person shows signs of Alzheimer's disease but is cognitively healthy and autonomous?

Labour exploitation including forced labour is endemic at the base of global tea and cocoa supply chains, according to a pioneering international study published by researchers at the University of ...

Siti lives in South Philadelphia with her husband and two children. They have trouble keeping pace with inflation, she says. (Emma Lee/WHYY) This story is from Young, Unhoused and Unseen, a podcast ...

When survivors of childhood sexual abuse tell their own stories in court or through government inquiries, they often describe the pervasive personal impact across many aspects of their life. In the ...

Number of Children in Poverty in Households in Which One or More Adults Smoke Table 3 shows estimated numbers of children in poor households in which one or two parents smoke, by marital status of the ...