In 2022, the Council on Foreign Relations warned, “Income and wealth inequality in the United States is substantially higher than in almost any other developed nation, and it is on the rise, sparking ...

Income inequality between countries may have eased in recent decades, but the gap within nations continues to widen. Take France: Its poverty rate clocked 15.4 percent in 2023, th ...

On February 2 nd, Pres. Joe Biden delivered his annual State of the Union address and received considerable praise for both the “progressive” positions he took and his combative tone. He seemed awake, ...

America’s richest earn in hours what ordinary workers earn over lifetimes. As Donald Trump’s tax bill seeks to make the plunder of the filthy rich permanent, “inequality” no longer feels like a strong ...

Wealth league tables promise clarity, ranking countries by how fairly they share prosperity. Yet when those scorecards label the Netherlands and the USA as outliers, they often obscure more than they ...

The research reveals a potential pathway for building consensus on addressing inequality. "Simply put, thinking about inequality in a multidimensional way-considering how it affects health and ...

For those of you who don’t remember the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 (it even has its own acronym, GFC), it was no walk in the park. From late-2007 to mid-2009, a downturn in the US housing market ...

Global inequality stems not just from what people have and don’t have—but what they're able to do with what they have. “The levels of inequality are horrendous," said Janet Fuentes, an activist from ...

Social inequality is bad for business. In an ideal world, we’d tackle social inequality just because it’s the right thing to do. But sometimes we can’t agree “on the right thing.” Putting values and ...