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There is a widening gap in US rural and urban death rates. Researchers report that these changes are not sudden and have been happening since 1970.

After Hurricane Katrina, researchers found that storm surge flooding did not increase heavy metal contaminants in soil. Instead, lead levels dropped.

What would it take for us to avoid a 2˚C increase in global temperature in the next 30 years? An energy policy firm tackles the question, modeling how current energy policies will impact future emissions.

New research in Health Affairs upends the belief that immigrants are a drain on the US health care system.

Research on fatherhood indicates a rise in stay-at-home fathers and single fathers over the past few decades.

Title X-participating centers consistently offer more effective and high-quality family planning services than non-Title X health centers.

Childhood poverty is not distributed evenly either across the country or within cities. Nearly one-third of Philadelphia’s infants and toddlers live in poverty.

Middle-wage earners have not seen much of an increase in pay, and low-wage earners have almost exclusively seen drops in their pay over the decades.

Climate change disproportionally damages low-income communities and communities of color. Yet, the majority of positions in environmental organizations are held by White individuals.

Researchers may have provided some new insight into the age-old question on what affects sperm counts.