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 ...

In the US, approximately 37.9 million people, or 11.4% of the population, lived below the poverty line in 2022. It has been well demonstrated that poverty negatively affects physical and mental health ...

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 stress of poverty has a significantly negative effect on the developing brains of young children. But a growing body of research finds that anti-poverty efforts, such as cash aid, Medicaid and the ...

The “harsh realities” of poverty in St. Louis, according to a Legal Services of Eastern Missouri report, are visible during events including the annual Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis MLK Food ...

A worker follows a raisin harvesting machine at a farm near Fresno in this 2021 photo. ERIC PAUL ZAMORA ezamora@fresnobee.com Poverty is pervasive. Poverty has negatively affected the lives of ...

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 ...

Karen Rowell I appreciate The New Mexican for articulating the problem of poverty in our community and its impact on education and schoolchildren. However, to talk about poverty in relation to local ...