High levels of inequality, within and between countries, are making the world more vulnerable to pandemics, making pandemics more economically disruptive and deadly, and making them last longer; ...

Thousands of South Sudanese refugees and impoverished locals in Uganda saw a brighter future with a new USAID-funded project.

Dani Rodrik argues that we already have the tools we need to address the world's biggest economic challenges.

Dr. Cohen is co-director of LeadingAge LTSS Center at University of Massachusetts Boston and has long studied the crisis of ...

Bill Gates is calling for shifting climate change focus from reducing carbon emissions to fighting poverty and preventing ...

Woojin Jung, an assistant professor at the Rutgers School of Social Work, said she has found a better strategy. Her team has ...

Some 3,500 years ago, hunter-gatherers began building massive earthwork mounds along the Mississippi River at Poverty Point, ...

Time availability can impact the development of dementia perhaps as much as diet and exercise, according to a panel of scientists. The group says its research should cause a paradigm shift in the ...

Tracy Smith-Carrier receives funding from the Tri-agency's Canada Research Chairs program and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Royal Roads University provides funding as a member ...

More than a decade ago, the Emmy-nominated documentary Poor Kids portrayed poverty in America as it’s rarely seen: through the eyes of children. Now, those kids — Brittany, Johnny and Kaylie — are all ...

PROVO — What is a conservative approach to fixing poverty? Republican leaders in Utah explored answers to that question at the annual kNOw Poverty Summit. Speakers at Wednesday's summit in Provo said ...

Pope Leo XIV, writing in the first major document of his pontificate, has denounced the “dictatorship” of economic inequality while insisting the Catholic Church is committed to supporting “rejected” ...