As the Rich Get Richer, Do People Get Sicker?

Researchers debate whether income inequality impairs public health

By LILA GUTERMAN

Robin Hood is alive and well in academe, in the form of an epidemiologist who works on the outskirts of Sherwood Forest.

Richard G. Wilkinson, a professor at the University of Nottingham, in England, took up the brigand's cloak 11 years ago when he reported that...

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