In an open letter published Monday and addressed to UN Secretary-General António Guterres and World Bank President Ajay Banga, the group called for more ambitious targets to reduce inequality and ...

The recently released World Inequality Report 2022 sheds light on this problem. With two traditional measures and two new ones, the study adds much to our knowledge of inequality. The first two ...

Their goal: to find out how social attitudes towards inequality in the U.S. and Norway differ, in an effort to explain why the two countries have such different redistribution policies.

Since World War II, inequality in the U.S. has gone through two, dramatically different phases. In the first phase, known as the great compression, inequality fell. Incomes rose for people in the ...

Fiscal policy is the primary tool for governments to affect income distribution. Rising income inequality in advanced and developing economies has coincided with growing public support for income ...

Ludwig von Mises, Socialism, pg. 165 Despite the happy truth that income and wealth inequality speak to individual freedom, enterprise being rewarded, and a shrinking of the lifestyle gap thanks ...

Such a surge has not been seen since the military dictatorship (1964-1985) and defies President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s goal of fighting inequality. Brazil is one of the most unequal ...

"The benefits of AI-driven automation often favour capital over labour, which could widen inequality and reduce the competitive advantage of low-cost labour in developing economies," it said.

Dr. Kahrl is a professor of history and African American studies at the University of Virginia and the author of “The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America.” ...