It was gratifying to read William A. Proefriedt’s Commentary “Outsider in the Locker Room” (Dec. 6, 2006) after so many years of suppression of the opinions, views, and, indeed, even the research ...

Without Congressional action, the recently released National Academy of Sciences report, “An Updated Measure of Poverty: (Re)Drawing the Line,” could have substantial effects on government program ...

One of the four principal goals of the welfare reform of 1996 was to increase married two-parent families. The current welfare reform proposals advanced by President George W. Bush and recently ...

Many studies examine the anti-poverty effects of social insurance and means-tested transfers, relying solely on survey data with substantial errors. We improve on past work by linking administrative ...

Poverty is known to be associated with poor health outcomes throughout life. Now, new research has shown that, from as early as the second trimester of pregnancy, unborn babies are already feeling the ...

In February, the Center on Poverty and Social Policy, at Columbia University, released a staggering new report on child poverty in the United States. The study found that the child-poverty rate had ...

No matter how one defines poverty, it is a reality. Among its more serious results is the demoralization that so often accompanies its extreme forms. In an area where the writer lived the most ...

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 ...

You’ve done a lot of research about the psychology of poverty. Do you see your research as supplying answers to any of today’s problems? My coauthors and I have really tried to emphasize one of the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Former and current smokers living in high-poverty neighborhoods may have an increased risk for adverse ...