And so, in that 2011 period, knowing that we had a long haul of trying to really bring back the economy for those who have been so devastated, and to see the Occupy movement sort of take on the ...

For proponents of baby bonds in Connecticut, the 'Trump accounts' are an ineffective way to address wealth disparities.

The Cuban peso traded on the informal market at an all-time low of 400 to the dollar on Monday, as the partial dollarization ...

Inequality is nothing new, but it's also far from inevitable. That's the takeaway from a new study of more than 1,000 settlements around the world over the last 10,000 years.

Imagine if Jeff Bezos had been born in 1864 instead of 1964. What a tragedy for Americans if so, and realistically for humankind. If born 100 years earlier there’s no debating that Bezos would h ...

What I’d ask Sir Angus Deaton. Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality by Angus Deaton Published in October 2023 Professor Deaton (Angus, if I can be so bold to be ...

The Republicans’ “big, beautiful bill” will make the poorest Americans even poorer, while padding the wallets of the highest earners the most, according to an analysis released Monday by ...

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Wednesday said wealth concentration creates discrimination and injustice, stressing ...

There is a lot of inequality in the world both within and across nations. Many people, me included, long for a more equal world where the haves and the have-nots are not so far apart.

But inequality hurts the richest, too — at least that’s what the philosopher Ingrid Robeyns argues in “Limitarianism,” a book coming out early next year.

May their inspiration spread. Sam Pizzigati writes on inequality for the Institute for Policy Studies. His latest book: The Case for a Maximum Wage (Polity).

Figures including Sam Altman think a form of universal basic income, or UBI, could be a solution if artificial intelligence ...