Driving kills as many Americans each year as guns do. Experts say that’s preventable.

Western housing shortages do not just prevent many from ever affording their own home. They also drive inequality, climate change, low productivity growth, obesity, and even falling fertility rates.

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.

A Yale study finds older people living in less advantaged neighborhoods become disabled roughly two years earlier than their more affluent counterparts.

Flooding is becoming worse due to the climate crisis. But the risk doesn’t affect us all equally. A report released by the real estate brokerage firm Redfin this week shows that formerly redlined areas are more vulnerable to the threat of floods.

A new Yale study shows that limited upward mobility has serious consequences on the life expectancy of young adults, particularly among Black males.

The decline, which is the largest seen in a single year since World War II, reflects the pandemic’s sustained toll on Americans, particularly the disproportionate impact of covid-19 on communities of color.

The spread of the pandemic in poor countries has drained many families who had to spend their life savings trying to help loved ones.

The U.S., U.K. and China are roaring ahead, while most lower income nations are struggling, reversing decades of progress in alleviating global poverty. “This has become the inequality virus.”

A family used their car to stay warm when a storm brought down the Texas power grid. In a state that doesn’t require CO alarms, they had no warning they were poisoning themselves.

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Since March 2020, New York Times reporters have tracked every known coronavirus case in every correctional setting in the nation. More than 2,700 inmates have died.

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The widening gap is fueling frustration and potentially extending the pandemic.

Emerging markets are at risk of falling far behind their advanced counterparts. That’s the whole world’s problem, officials warned.

As tech campuses became ghost towns, the people who kept them running—cooks, custodians, drivers—faced an existential threat to their livelihoods.

Widespread disease outbreaks have the potential to shock societies into new ways of living.