Health needs to be at the heart of the Government’s levelling up agenda, say researchers at the Universities of Cambridge and Newcastle. The team have today

Should the U.S. help low-income households afford water service, as it does with heating and groceries? Chile does. An economist explains how it works there and how it could work here.

Public investments in benefit programs could save tens of thousands of children from being victims of child abuse and have important later-life effects on child welfare and overall health.

People with unpaid health care bills are less likely to seek needed medical care, according to research that indicates the inverse is also true.

Nationwide, millions of people, disproportionately poor and people of color, are saddled with unaffordable criminal legal debt. A new report offers fixes.

"This is further evidence of the influence of a legacy of structural racism on the disproportional burden of adverse pregnancy outcomes for Black women..."

Hot, humid population centers are becoming epicenters of heat risk as climate changes worsens. It’s calling into question the conventional wisdom that urbanization uniformly reduces poverty.

Hot, humid population centers are becoming epicenters of heat risk as climate changes worsens. It’s calling into question the conventional wisdom that urbanization uniformly reduces poverty.

PhD student Ying Gao's research reveals that the urban poor in the developing world are politically engaged and capable of effecting change.

A new study argues for a utilitarian approach to curbing carbon emissions, one that focuses on well-being rather than GDP.