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New research reveals a deepening crisis in prenatal health as geography and income increasingly dictate whether a mother can meet her basic nutritional needs.
In low-income countries, tobacco use is often associated with lower income and less education. These users can’t afford to pay for counselling and medication.
Africa’s used vehicle dependency is often attributed to low income and weak regulation.
It’s been unusually cold, and energy prices are soaring. That spells trouble for the quarter of Australians who have very cold homes.
Low literacy levels are a common contributing factor in Australia’s homeless population. We asked people who have experienced homelessness how poor literacy affected their lives – and what would help.
Adults in the US reported the same levels of depression a year into the pandemic as they did at the outset.
Affordable housing has become a middle-class problem, and Ontario’s latest housing report reflects an approach that continues to marginalize those with the greatest need.
The prices households pay for drinking water and wastewater services have been rising faster than the rate of inflation.
The number of older renters is growing – and much less is known about their experiences in the expensive and insecure private rented sector.
Shorten will say that under his government some 10 million people would receive the same or bigger tax cut, with nearly three million low paid workers getting a bigger tax cut.
People on low incomes put insurance cover first – even if it means doing without basic goods.
Government is about to be disrupted by technology in the same manner as major industries. It’s about time.
The current system disproportionately limits opportunities for young people from low-income backgrounds.
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Professor of Higher Education Policy, Birkbeck, University of London
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Social policy and consumer finance researcher, School of Economics, Finance and Marketing, University of Tasmania
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Honorary Principal Fellow, School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Professor in Public Policy and Society, University of Toronto
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Research Officer, Research Unit on the Economics of Excisable Products, University of Cape Town
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Assistant Professor Sociology and Social Studies, University of Regina
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Associate Profesor, School of Planning, University of Waterloo
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Senior Lecturer, Social Policy and Housing, University of Stirling
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Chief of Staff, Boston University
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Research Scholar, Center for Sustainable Urban Development, Climate School, Columbia University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Australian Centre for Housing Research, Adelaide University
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Associate professor, Western Sydney University
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Associate Professor in Architecture, Adelaide University
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Alan Morris is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor, Institute for Public Policy and Governance, University of Technology Sydney
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Dean and Robert A Knox Professor, Boston University