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Could Banning Bird Scooters Leave Behind a City’s Most Economically Vulnerable Citizens?

Though scooter-shares have led to sidewalk safety concerns, they're also an accessible transportation option.

Fries aren't the healthiest food, but they do not act alone.

However, new research finds this effect is limited to wealthier women.

Research suggests that being surrounded by well-off peers in not-too-intense academic environments can lead to lifetime gains.

Cognitively speaking, there may be no way to recover from a disadvantaged childhood.

You're far more likely to hold a high-status occupation if your parents did the same.

A new report finds that, all across the country, minimum-wage workers don't earn enough to rent a two-bedroom home.

Wealthy people's brains are less likely to atrophy, according to new research.

Research finds evidence that brains age faster among people of lower socioeconomic status.

Impoverished communities are often the most affected by natural disasters.