Economic justice considerations, including the rights to a living wage, housing, education, health care, clean environment, food, and safety, infuse the work of the US Program. Lack of economic ...

We also document how extreme economic inequality contributes to corruption and mismanagement of public resources. We push governments to end abusive policies that contribute to poverty ...

and the economic shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic have deepened these trends and challenged policymakers to respond. Economists say the causes of worsening inequality are complex and include ...

What causes economic inequality? In our list of six potential factors, the strong connection between money and politics resonates most with respondents, topping the list in 31 of 36 countries. Overall ...

His new book, Poverty, by America, studies various factors that contribute to economic inequality in the U.S., including housing segregation, predatory lending, the decline of unions and tax ...

Almost every study ever done of inequality and voting shows that economic deprivation and bad health reduce ... The correlation becomes a vicious circle: Bad health causes individuals to be less ...

The ratification of the 16th Amendment in 1913, authorizing a federal income tax, emerged from a confluence of economic inequality ... Crime, disease and poverty were rampant in these ...

At Oxfam, we know that climate change, poverty, and inequality are linked ... and long standing gender, racial and economic inequalities mean that historically marginalized communities are the hardest ...

STOCKHOLM, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Harvard economic historian Claudia Goldin won the 2023 Nobel economics prize for her work exposing the causes of deeply rooted wage and labour market inequality ...

The Social and Economic Justice minor is designed to provide students with a framework to address the causes, consequences ... including economic inequality and poverty, gender inequality, and racial ...