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While many of us worry about our finances, a new and intense fear of poverty is becoming increasingly common among young ...
The One Big Beautiful Bill adds a new tax deduction for seniors, but it may accelerate Social Security’s insolvency by ...
The study first purports to show that economic factors can explain only a third of the drop in child poverty between 1993 and 2019. Using statistical modeling, they estimate the change in child ...
Earlier this week, I spoke with a group of senior officials at the Department of Health and Human Services about strategies to reduce poverty in the United States. The conversation centered on ...
Professor Anna Gupta discusses the lack of focus on addressing poverty within children's social work, amid rising child ...
In an interview with The Michigan Daily about interconnected factors of poverty, Social Work student Nicole Portmann Munoz said this was one of the reasons why she had been interested in the event.
Think tank calls for HMRC and financial firms to deliver targeted nudges to boost self-employed pension saving, as only 20% ...
Boosting education and skills training as well as improving transport and strengthening social protection would help people ...
A team of researchers led by two University of Mississippi professors is working to unlock patterns and causes of the No. 1 killer of Mississippians: heart disease.
By one estimate, high-poverty schools in districts that were mostly remote experienced 50 percent more achievement loss than low-poverty ones during the 2020-21 school year alone.
Not only is Social Security's $2.84 trillion in asset reserves (as of January 2023) backed by the federal government, but it's generating a 2.338% average interest rate.
Poverty was considered insignificant when all factors were analyzed together vs. not significant in 50% of patients. “When we compare those (survival) curves with the overall population of the United ...