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OECD data suggests about 1 in 4 seniors in the U.S. are poor. Tweaking Social Security may be the best way to eradicate or reduce old-age income poverty.

Americans who are struggling need wealth-building interventions like baby bonds, write Natalie Foster and Darrick Hamilton.

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U.S. News & World Report, the global authority in education rankings, today announced the 2024 Best High Schools rankings.

Grants Pass is urging the Supreme Court to abandon the Robinson precedent and its progeny as “moribund and misguided.” It argues that the Eighth Amendment forbids only certain cruel methods of ...

American Jews celebrate the Passover Seder more than any other Jewish holiday or observance because Passover is a distinct ...

Many people in India struggle to survive amid endemic poverty ... was unsanitary to the point that workers’ hands were infected, and they lacked safety and hygiene protection required under Indian law ...