Tag: Poverty
For some NBA draftees who overcame adversity, making the transition to...
Rob Book, University of Southern Denmark
When a young athlete is drafted into the NBA – as 58 players...
Food insecurity already affects 12 million US homes – and reductions...
Hilary Seligman, University of California, San Francisco
Millions of Americans struggle to afford healthy meals and nutritious food. Known...
Barbara Kingsolver’s ‘Demon Copperhead’ and the enduring devastation of the opioid crisis
William Nash, Middlebury
Barbara Kingsolver’s literary honors range from the National Book Prize of South Africa to the PEN/Faulkner...
Four things that cost more if you’re already poor – and some...
Sara Davies, University of Bristol
As the UK faces the sharpest increase in the cost of living in a...
Child poverty estimates point to a record low in 2021 –...
Steven Pressman, The New School and Robert H. Scott III, Monmouth University
The U.S. government will likely report in...
Swelling grocery bills are pummeling the poorest – who spend over...
David Soll, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
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The cost of eggs and bread...
Social Security benefits play key role in preventing older Americans from...
Sophie Mitra, Fordham University; Debra Brucker, University of New Hampshire, and Katie Jajtner, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Research Brief...
A living wage increases economic productivity while reducing poverty – new...
Anna Barford, University of Cambridge and Jane Nelson, Harvard Kennedy School
It can be difficult to see a way...
EXPLORING NATURE
Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...
Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma
