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 ...

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 ...

Families under financial strain can face intense scrutiny, where everyday struggles may be misread. Learn what really matters ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Naomi Zewde ([email protected]) is a postdoctoral research scientist at the Center on Poverty and Social Policy, Columbia University School of Social Work, in New York City. Christopher Wimer is ...

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 ...

New numbers out this week from the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center show that 90,000 Massachusetts children are living in areas of concentrated poverty, for the most part in Boston and in ...

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 ...