Martin Luther King Jr speaks to civil rights marchers in Montgomery, Alabama, on March 25, 1965. He was a believer in health ...

The Federal Housing Finance Agency has been repealing rules, firing teams of people focused on fair lending and climate risk, ...

These days, the mention of a carthorse or mule plowing a field would transport many people back in time to an era of ...

It is late, the ward is crowded, and the clock is moving faster than everyone would like. A doctor has stabilized the patient as best they can, but one thing is missing—blood.

Seasoned public health physicians say that raising taxes on sugary and alcoholic drinks alone would not significantly curb the health risks associated with their excessive consumption.They noted that ...

The Milan Urban Food Policy Pact recently renewed global commitments to sustainable and equitable urban food systems. The ...

Consumer spending makes up two-thirds of U.S. GDP, but the economy cannot rely on wealthy consumers alone. Lower- and middle-income households account for the bulk of total consumption by volume. When ...

When Richard Amaechi, 27, lost his job as a financial planner in North Carolina, he decided to pull up stakes and return to San Francisco, where his parents still lived. The question was: Had his ...

Spoiler alert: It costs much more in 2025 to be considered “middle class” than it did in 1990. And that makes sense, given that both wages and the cost of living have increased significantly over the ...

The US, UK and Norway have issued a scathing statement about how President Salva Kiir of oil-rich South Sudan has managed to turn what was a middle-income nation at independence in 2011 into the ...

Finding a place with zero income tax seems like an easy win, but every country that skips taxing paychecks fills the gap in its own way. A few rely on oil revenue, while others depend heavily on ...

Sri Lanka protesters in 2022, during the height of the economic crisis. Sovereign debt crises nowadays are not just economical but also geopolitical, directly shaping national sovereignty. Weak fiscal ...