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On the website it’s called closing the opportunity divide, equating economic justice with economic prosperity. In real life it means helping a young person who’s seen friends and relatives die young, who’s known poverty, drugs, violence, and even...

S. Allen Counter, the founding director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations and a noted neurophysiologist, educator, and ethnographer, died on July 12. “Harvard has lost a great champion of inclusion and belonging in Dr. Allen...

Enrollees in Medicaid reported in a nationwide survey that they’re largely satisfied with the health care they receive under the program, according to researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Most Medicaid enrollees said that they have...

Can exposure to inequality influence whether people support proposals such as the so-called “millionaire’s tax”? The answer is yes, but not in the direction many might think, according to a new Harvard study. The study, conducted by Melissa Sands, a Ph.D...