Eleven percent of Americans spend more than half of their paycheck on housing. These households rate their health as lower and are less likely to have access to enough nutritious food.
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The $4 billion that foundations are pledging to spend within five years amounts to less than 1 percent of what businesses and governments spend on global warming every year.
World Food Day, Oct. 16, provides an opportunity to gauge where the fight against hunger stands. It's also a time, an expert says, to look at so-called hidden hunger.
A person in the US can expect to live an average of 78.8 years. But that number can change by decades depending on the community they come from.
Miles murieron después del paso del huracán María, pero no debió ser así. Las primeras evidencias debían haber llevado al Gobierno a una respuesta mucho más consistente.
Thousands died after Hurricane Maria, but it did not have to be that way. Early evidence should have led the government to a much stronger response.
Un sociólogo entrevistó a cientos de inmigrantes en Nueva York, Barcelona y París. Le contaron que hacen esas ciudades, tanto bien como mal, para integrar residentes nacidos en el extranjero.
A sociologist interviewed hundreds of immigrants in New York, Barcelona and Paris. Here's what they say those cities get right — and do wrong — when integrating foreign-born residents.
Bolivia's populist leader has been in office for 12 years. He's a thorn in the US's side and an ally of the late Hugo Chávez. Now he's running for a fourth term. But that doesn't make him a dictator.
Trump justice officials portray the Salvadoran gang MS-13 as a powerful drug cartel staffed with criminal undocumented immigrants. That's a dangerous mistake if you actually want to prevent violence.
With many men 'missing' from the population in the aftermath of the 1918 flu, women stepped into public roles that hadn't previously been open to them.
Why are people from some states so much healthier than others? Despite what you may hear, it's not just about genetics or poor choices.
A researcher warns that the sugary treats of the holiday season can set the stage for children's long-term health and academic success if left unchecked.
Wondering why Jerusalem matters so much? A 25-year veteran of the Israeli Foreign Service explains what you need to know.
As the U.S. weakens its protections for internet users, it risks falling behind the rest of the world, which is embracing the importance of regulation to preserve an open internet.
An alternative to an open fair dealing right, or as a clarification, South Africa's copyright law could be amended with a specific provision to protect modern Internet uses.
The administration's objectives for NAFTA negotiations with Canada and Mexico, set to begin in August, will do little to help American workers, let alone create shared prosperity across the continent.
Currency first hit the scene thousands of years ago. An anthropologist explains the early origins and uses of money – and how archaeological finds fill in our picture of the past.
Americans are shocked Russia meddled in our election. But there are centuries of precedent – and, at times, it’s been the US meddling.
Zimbabwe like many other post colonial governments across the globe continues to struggle to attain equitable land reform.
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Department Chair, Health Studies, American University
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Director and Assistant Professor Measurement & Evaluation School of Professional and Extended Studies, American University
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Professor of Anthropology, American University
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Scholar-in-residence at the Center for Israeli Studies, American University
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Professor of Russian History, American University
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, American University
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Assistant Professor of Health Studies, American University
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Research Fellow, American University
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Executive Director, Center for Teaching, Research, and Learning, American University
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Ph.D. Student in Law and Communications, American University
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Professor of Economics, American University
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Research Associate Professor, American University
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Associate Professor of Education, American University
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Law Professor, American University
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Senior Fellow, Center for Latin American and Latino Studies, American University
