For most of us, Columbia is such a great place to live and work, still small-town, with plenty of culture, innovation, and education. But beneath its heavily academic veneer lies a stark reality: the ...

What determines mental health, school performance, and even cognitive development? A new review in De Gruyter's Reviews in the Neurosciences suggests that poverty and low socioeconomic status (SES) ...

More than 70 people who attended a public forum Thursday in Rochester now know about the hidden rules of poverty, middle class and wealth that Ruby K. Payne describes in her book, "A Framework for ...

Socioeconomic status (SES) is based on factors such as family income, parents’ education and neighborhood poverty. A low SES in childhood is associated with poor outcomes in adulthood across many ...