Socioeconomic Class

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.

The income gap has been virtually unchanged for the last 50 years, and rising income inequality is part of the reason why.

New research finds many white suburbanites are motivated to move when their neighborhood becomes more ethnically diverse.

New research finds that low-income immigrants who were provided fee vouchers to cover application costs were 41 percent more likely to apply for citizenship.

A new study shows imagining future success can help with facing everyday challenges for low-income college students.

Quality of medical care and mortality are frequently linked to socioeconomic success. But for African Americans, that's often not the case.

Two poverty researchers talk about the social forces reinforcing the cycle of segregation.

New research finds people on different ends of the economic spectrum find happiness in different ways.

Researcher Philip Alston offers a sharp criticism of U.S. policymakers' response to poverty.

Just how old is the problem of economic inequality?

A new analysis finds that every income group looks quite a bit worse by 2027 under the revised Senate tax reform legislation.

House Republican leaders unveiled their tax reform plan on Thursday. The opposition lobbying has already begun.

Communities need hard data to prove they're been affected by pollution. But the government databases that keep track of those numbers are now under threat.

Some new anti-poverty programs are encouraging participants to form connections with others who are going through similar life challenges, offering success through companionship.

In Mumbai's private clubs, some economically disadvantaged young men have improved their lives thanks to a sport usually reserved for the city's most affluent.