To capture socioeconomic conditions, the researchers collected information on 16 different indicators, including parental education and occupation, household income, family financial crises ...

The highest-earning U.S. households would see the biggest gains under the GOP budget package thanks to tax cuts, CBO analysis ...

Low-income patients—and their health care providers—are less likely to challenge denials of their health insurance claims ...

Why Does Duke Have So Few Low-Income Students? A case study in economic diversity at elite colleges. ... Entering the room can feel like a public declaration of a student’s modest background.

A new report says a 5 percent increase in low-income students admitted would result in more socioeconomic diversity among Ivy League students. Ivy League colleges are under growing pressure to broaden ...

Lower-income Americans still struggling after years of high inflation and elevated interest rates could face a new battle if President-elect Donald Trump reignites inflation with his economic ...

Given this background, my colleagues at The Times Magazine and I decided to shine a light on economic diversity at nearly 300 of the country’s most selective colleges, public and private.

HBI in August was 102.2%, up from a low of 86.7% in June 2022 when inflation peaked at a 40-year high of 9.1%, and at the highest level since February 2021.Households are neither better nor worse ...

Drawing on the development experience and advances in economic analysis since the 1950s, World Development Report 2024 identifies what developing economies can do to avoid the “middle-income trap.” ...

And they provide evidence that these cross-class relationships are the reason why low-income folks are much more likely to climb the economic ladder. Sponsor Message Beyoncé Drops Another Banger ...