A paper published a few years ago in the American Economic Journal has raised eyebrows within and outside of the profession. Combining national accounts data with household surveys, its authors found ...

Almost 2,000 pieces of sports kit have been donated to community groups as part of a project that aims to tackle inequality in sports. An event at John Charles Centre for Sport in Leeds was organised ...

According to the report by the Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions of Turkey and General Services Workers’ Union (DİSK/Genel-İş), Turkey has become the country with the highest income inequality ...

Today’s state of extreme economic inequality is a problem best approached with science — using it to make specific measurements, identify root causes, and develop workable solutions. Archaeology is ...

Two decades of stalled progress on closing the U.S. gender pay gap may have less to do with the office and more to do with the kitchen sink.

Inequality and poverty impacts thousands of Surrey residents, a new report has found [Getty] Inequality and poverty impacts thousands of Surrey residents – including children – despite its reputation ...

Last week, the Office for National Statistics published data showing that income inequality in the UK has fallen to its lowest level since 1996. I’m sure you don’t need me to tell you that – you’ll ...

From soil loss to wildfires, degraded rivers, mass migration and conflict, the environmental crisis is already here — and it's set to get much worse. While billionaires build remote bunkers and make ...

The Human Rights Watch stated, “Racial justice remained a pressing human rights concern in the United States in 2024. The US ratified the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of ...

The Democrat challenging Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman slammed the US cash bail system in newly resurfaced social media posts – claiming the system “criminalizes poverty and exacerbates ...

At the outset of the 1920s, a wave of attempted assassinations and political violence crested alongside new barriers to immigration, a campaign of deportations and a government crackdown on dissenting ...

ISLAMABAD: The World Bank has warned that actual inequality in Pakistan is likely higher, as surveys typically underrepresent top-income brackets. The Bank, in its latest “Poverty & Equity Brief”, ...