You’re invited to join Wendy Schiller, Alison S. Ressler Professor of Political Science at Brown University, for an American Politics Speaker Series discussion sponsored by the Ash Center for ...

Death rates and disability in newborn PAH have declined globally since 1990, but inequalities remain, according to a 30-year ...

If the government shutdown continues, millions of low-income people are at risk of losing access to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

Redistributing income alone is unlikely to solve America’s vast inequalities. Workers need and want more power in their ...

A new study of voters in the United States and five other countries finds that those on the far right become much more ...

Besides, America recently ran a very large natural experiment in dropping money on schools that, in a word, failed. During ...

Despite the global phase-out of leaded gasoline, lead pollution continues to threaten health and widen inequality, with low- and middle-income countries bearing the brunt SINGAPORE, Oct. 12, 2025 ...

Americans over 60 are having financial trouble meeting their basic needs. For the lowest earners, that can spell an earlier death, a new report found.

Global income inequality captures income differences among all individuals around the world. Global inequality around the world increased from 1820 to 1990 as incomes in richer countries grew faster ...

Heart disease mortality is on the rise in California, accelerated by socioeconomic disparities that disproportionately impact marginalized communities, according to a study being presented at ACC ...

The Human Rights Watch stated, "Racial justice remained a pressing human rights concern in the United States in 2024. The US ratified the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of ...

American households did get a raise last year — just not the kind they’d collectively brag about. The U.S. Census Bureau says median household income ticked up from $82,690 in 2023 to $83,730 in 2024, ...