A University of Adelaide study has found that the negative effects of energy poverty on mental health are not only related to income stress and therefore differ depending on how energy poverty is ...

Poverty rates look different depending on where and who you look at.

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 ...

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 ...

What determines mental health, school performance, and even cognitive development? A new study in Reviews in the Neurosciences suggests that poverty and low socioeconomic status (SES) are key ...

Jamie’s life has been battered by the effects of drug addiction. The purpose of her visit is to tend the grave of her mum and ...

There is a bidirectional, causal relationship between mental illness and poverty, new research showed. "This study indicates that certain mental health problems can make a person's financial situation ...

Income inequality has significantly increased in the United States since the 1980s (Pew Research Center, 2020). The wealth gap between America’s richest and poorer families more than doubled between ...

At first glance, Canada ranks among the top third of countries for its work in addressing child poverty. But that isn't the whole story. Based on current rates of and overall progress in reducing ...