Americans at all wealth levels are more likely to die sooner than their European counterparts, with even the richest U.S. citizens living shorter lives than northern and western Europeans. That is the key finding of our new study^[1], published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

We also found that while the wealthiest Americans live longer than the poorest, the wealth-mortality gap in the U.S. is far more pronounced than...

A lot of research has been done on the outcomes of young children who receive care in early education programs^[1] across the country. High-quality early childhood education programs positively shape young children’s development^[2]. Far less research has focused on the early childhood workforce that powers these programs.

We set out to better understand how to support workers who care for our youngest and most vulnerable...