Financing is the engine of development. And right now, this engine is sputtering,” U.N. Secretary General António Guterres ...

Social Stress Theory explains how factors like poverty, discrimination, and social inequality create chronic stress that ...

As Congress debates tax cuts and safety-net reforms in the One Big Beautiful Bill, a major line of attack against the proposal is that it would worsen inequality, which, to hear some critics tell it, ...

The world's top 1% accumulated trillions in wealth over the past decade, while life-saving aid faces cuts, according to a ...

Fresh off his win in the Democratic mayoral primary, Zohran Mamdani criticized the city's wealthiest residents during a ...

The U.S. may have the highest level of income inequality of the G7 nations, but new research suggests that disparity has actually stabilized over the last decade, thanks to rapid growth in wages ...

While tennis has made significant strides in ensuring equal pay for men and women, the same cannot be said for many other ...

The Philippines' GNI rose to $4,470 in 2024 but remains short of upper-middle income status as inequality and political ...

Welfare inequality, John Nye argues, is much less severe than it used to be, and trying to tax away or regulate income inequality will only make more intractable forms of inequality more pernicious.

Australia has made progress in reducing socioeconomic inequalities in life expectancy since the late 2010s, according to new ...

Walter Scheidel argues that economic inequality is not only inevitable, but that whenever inequality has been reduced, the reasons forcing inequality down have been nothing short of horrific.