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  Residents of the Grant and Manhattanville housing projects in west Harlem have been subjected to a deadly gang rivalry spanning generations. This past June, the New York Police Department unleashed a squad of more than 500 police officers to...

A new type of outreach program was effective in helping poorer Americans quit smoking, researchers say.   People with low incomes in the United States have higher rates of smoking, according to the authors of the study. They also have more...

  Principal cartoon characters are more than twice as likely to be killed off as their counterparts in films for adults released in the same year, reveals research from the University of Ottawa and University College London, published in the...

  Alcohol outlets tend to be concentrated in lower-income areas. Given that alcohol-related problems such as trauma, chronic disease, and suicide occur more frequently in areas with a greater density of alcohol outlets, lower-income populations...

  A 47-year-old woman was caught stealing eggs in Tarrant, Ala., over the weekend. But instead of arresting Helen Johnson, police officer William Stacy bought her a carton of eggs in exchange for a promise never to shoplift again. That wasn't the...

Concentrated poverty remains a huge barrier to developing the potential of black and Hispanic youth in the United States. Of all the issues raised by the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, perhaps the most intractable is the challenge of...

  As a follow up to last week’s Top Ten Healthcare Quotes For 2014, this week we target some of the bigger healthcare stories through the lens of ten charts (and one PowerPoint slide) that appeared throughout the year. Since 2014 was the...

  The fact that childcare is expensive, sometimes prohibitively so, is nothing new. For years, families have been confronted with high-priced childcare that sometimes leads to one spouse stepping away from the workforce, reasoning that the cost...

  Backed by a new report from his Council of Economic Advisers, President Barack Obama is framing his push for universal preschool and early education as an economic issue that will yield extraordinary financial benefits not only to children and...

  In Richmond, Calif., a city long equated with high rates of crime and poverty, the local police have taken steps in recent years to improve relations with the communities they serve. Highlighting those efforts, Richmond Chief of Police Chris...

University of Michigan Original Study  A nxious mother rats give off an odor that teaches their newborn babies to be afraid.   Researchers studied mother rats who had learned to fear the smell of peppermint and saw them teach this fear to...

Steinway & Sons Grand Piano Iron Plates and Strings. Credit: David Maiolo / Wikipedia. M usic training has well-known benefits for the developing brain, especially for at-risk children. But youngsters who sit passively in a music class may be missing out, according to new Northwestern University research. In a study designed to test whether the level of engagement matters, researchers found that children who regularly attended music classes and actively...