Despite the strength of the U.S. economy, the gap between rich and poor Americans is increasing. The wealthiest 1% of Americans have more than five times as much wealth as the bottom 50%, according to ...

COVID-19 is not only challenging global health systems but testing our common humanity. It affects everyone everywhere, yet it hits the poorest and most vulnerable communities the hardest, deepening ...

In the United States today, the cliché is true: The richer are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. The saying has to be revised somewhat since it is the entire bottom 80 percent of ...

Researchers from Trinity College Dublin have collaborated with international partners to explore if societal inequality affects our brain. Their research paper is published in Nature Aging today, ...

The link between women’s empowerment and economic growth is well established. When women are economically empowered, they invest more in their families, creating a cycle of positive outcomes that ...

Paul Constant is a writer at Civic Ventures and the cohost of the "Pitchfork Economics" podcast. He spoke with Dr. Faiza Shaheen of the Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies. Its ...

Children's views of inequality may be influenced by how its causes are explained to them, finds a new study by a team of psychology researchers. The work offers insights into the factors that affect ...

"What gets measured gets done." It's an expression often cited by global health advocates, notes World Health Organization official Erin Kenney. And she says it's the reason she's so encouraged by WHO ...

Thirty years ago, Michigan voters completely overhauled the state’s public school funding system. Proposal A, approved on the 1994 ballot with support from 69% of voters, created a new funding ...

In an ideal world—well, a better world, at least—“good news” economic stories about the potential of artificial intelligence would get as much buzz as gloomer-doomer ones. Given that isn’t our reality ...

Zohran Mamdani’s historic victory for the working class in the financial capital of the world is a reflection of the growing appeal of bold platforms that attack extreme inequality and oligarchy and ...

Branko Milanović’s century-spanning intellectual history of inequality in economic theory reveals the ideological reasons behind the field’s resurgence in the last few decades. Branko Milanovic, 2017.