Pollution, poverty and power: the real cost of environmental inequality in the UK

Cleaner air is progress, but injustice remains. Environmental racism still decides who breathes dirty air, who gets sick and ...
PBS

Cross-Class Friendship Key to Rising Out of Poverty

A new study reveals that cross-class connections are key to lifting children out of poverty. Behind the research is Raj Chetty, professor of economics at Harvard University and director of Opportunity ...
The Economist

Friendship across class lines may boost social mobility and decrease poverty

A large research team—including Raj Chetty of Harvard University, Matthew Jackson of Stanford University, and Theresa Kuchler and Johannes Stroebel of New York University—worked with proprietary data ...
Psychology Today

World Poverty Day: Conversation Starters to Use with Kids

NOTE: This post was co-authored with members of the CUESI Lab—Lindsey Nenadal, Ph.D., Katherine Griffin, Ph.D., Taylor Hazelbaker, M.A., and Kristina Brittenham, J ...

Child poverty biggest threat to UK’s long-term economic future – Gordon Brown

Child poverty biggest threat to UK’s long-term economic future – Gordon Brown - Mr Brown is expected to call for a ‘new ...
Digital Journal

Poverty in the UK: Hunger pushes A&E admissions up

What is life like in Starmer's UK? — Image by © Tim Sandle What is life like in Starmer's UK? — Image by © Tim Sandle A lack of food has become the biggest ...
The Atlantic

The One Cause of Poverty That’s Never Considered

In the United States, a staggeringly wealthy country, one in nine people—and one in eight children—is officially poor. Those figures have fluctuated only slightly over half a century, during which ...