African-American and poor children in the United States suffer disproportionately from asthma. But according to a new study from sociologists at Rice University, racial and socio-economic gaps in the ...

Back in the 1990s, the federal government tried an unusual social experiment: It offered thousands of poor women in big-city public housing a chance to live in more affluent neighborhoods. A decade ...

A new study showed that neighborhood factors such as housing quality, violence, education, access to healthy food and poverty may play a role in maternal and fetal health related to gestational ...

Wilmington Mayor John Carney refers to a map where the poorest neighborhoods in the city, in red, were feeling the brunt of property tax hikes. (Sarah Mueller/WHYY) What are journalists missing from ...