There is a profound danger of presenting guesstimates as fact. Misinformation is disrespectful to the materially poor and creates an illusion that makes true redress even harder to pursue.

Meanwhile, minimum wage hikes in health care ($25 per hour by 2028) and fast food ($20 per hour starting April 2024) are expected to slightly alleviate income inequality in these sectors.

Income inequality is growing in the United States and is a cause for concern. Wealth concentration was high in the beginning of the twentieth century before falling from 1929 to 1978, but it has ...

Poverty is expensive because it extends far beyond individual hardship, subtly draining economic vitality, social cohesion ...

South Africa remains one of the most unequal countries in the world. The country's per-capita expenditure Gini coefficient, a measure of how spending from income is distributed, stands at 0.65.

A leading tutoring charity is inviting schools in Sheffield to join an evaluation of an innovative maths intervention, which ...

And poverty and inequality have terrible impacts on our health. The Health Foundation forecasts that “on current trends, inequalities in health will persist over the next two decades: people in the 10 ...

Jamaica saw a historic drop in poverty in 2023, with both general and food poverty rates falling by more than half — marking the lowest levels recorded since official tracking began in 1989 ...

The main findings show that in general, a basic income support grant has the potential to reduce poverty and inequality in South Africa. However, the effect varies based on the targeting mechanism ...