It’s all very well promising disabled people ‘a seat at the table’. If elected, presidential hopefuls must make it a reality

If we allow US ‘big pharma’ to get its hands on the NHS, drug costs will rocket and millions will be priced out of healthcare

The swelling ranks of people living on the streets are austerity’s public face. It is nothing short of a national disgrace, says journalist and author Mary O’Hara

In countries such as the US and UK, those in poverty are far more likely to develop mental health problems, says Guardian columnist Mary O’Hara

In the UK and the US, debt and poverty are now at crisis point, says Guardian columnist Mary O’Hara

People with disabilities in the UK and US are less likely to have a job and when they do they earn less, says writer Mary O’Hara

It is not normal that millions of children are living in poverty in two of the world’s richest countries, says columnist Mary O’Hara

Strikes by prisoners and officers in the UK and US highlight how the failing prison system demeans us all, says Guardian columnist Mary O’Hara

In both the UK and US, services for young people are being cut, leaving those from marginalised groups at greatest risk of suicide, says Guardian columnist Mary O’Hara

As the Poor People’s Campaign begins 40 days of protest in the US, it’s time for a concerted fight against poverty in two of the richest nations in the world

The double whammy of austerity and predatory lending is having a negative effect on the mental health of people in poverty

Savage cuts to benefits both in the UK and the US are repeatedly mis-sold as welfare reform to ‘help people’

It perpetuates ugly stereotypes and distracts us from the dearth of care – most US citizens with a mental health condition don’t receive the treatment they need

For nearly 30 years, the Americans with Disabilities Act has protected the day-to-day rights of disabled people. A new bill threatens to take them away

By 2020, the median white US household will have 86 times more wealth than its black equivalent. But financial inequality is entrenched in the UK, too

With nutrition-based programmes in the firing line of Trump’s budget cuts, millions more will be forced to turn to US food banks

Our penal system is overcrowded, underfunded – and unable to deal with inmates’ mental health problems. No wonder suicide rates are soaring

The soaring numbers of deaths from overdoses in the US and UK requires a radical and fast rethink of drugs policy

Attacks on the poorest families in society rest on a deeply flawed narrative that we can’t afford them, yet we can still line the pockets of the rich with tax cuts