The social phenomenon of poverty is extremely complex and in constant, rapid change; it is essential to understand its nature in order to support those who find themselves entangled in its ...

Is India’s poverty rate 5% or 24%? A debate over poverty lines, data transparency, and Parliament’s questions reveals how millions may be missing from policy.

Official figures on the number of children living in poverty in the UK are expected to be revised down over concerns they have not been accurately reflecting household income. For more than 30 years, ...

Oluwasegun Akinyemi, MD, PhD, MSc, expressed concern about recent cuts and potential threats to Medicaid expansion. Previous studies have shown that Medicaid expansion was associated with improved ...

"One cannot transform capitalist terrain into proletarian terrain." Octobre, Nº 4, April 1938.

We love to believe money doesn't matter. It's a comforting idea, isn't it? The thought that the billionaire and the baker wake up equally happy, that the numbers in your bank account have nothing to ...

Reaching 100 sounds like a miracle, yet ultimately, biology still negotiates the deal. One new study asked whether meat eaters gain an edge in extreme old age. It also asked whether people who avoid ...

Some sex differences in brain-connectivity patterns become more pronounced with age, according to new research. Researchers studying brain-imaging data from people aged between 8 and 100 found that ...

Social Security benefits play a vital role in reducing poverty in every state, and they lift more people above the poverty line than any other program in the United States. Without Social Security, 23 ...

Objectives To estimate the rate of hospitalisation, identify associated factors and assess out-of-pocket expenditure (OOPE) among adults with multimorbidity in Kerala, India. Design Community-based ...