Income inequality between countries may have eased in recent decades, but the gap within nations continues to widen. Take France: Its poverty rate clocked 15.4 percent in 2023, the highest since ...

Washington, D.C.’s pervasive inequality manifests itself primarily in income and educational gaps, according to a series of reports released over the past few weeks. A report analyzing the financial ...

The specter of economic inequality is haunting nations across the globe, creating anxiety that reaches far beyond statistical charts and economic reports. From developed democracies to emerging ...

Archeologists analyzed a dataset of over 50,000 homes across history and location. A team at Chicago’s Field Museum has published a first-of-its-kind study analyzing 10,000 years’ worth of wealth ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sen. Bernie Sanders has criticized the growing wealth disparity in the country, citing the staggering increase in the fortunes of ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) H. Colleen Sinclair, Louisiana State University (THE CONVERSATION) When I taught ...

A Monash University study has found significant disparities in employment and work participation among LGBTQ+ Australians, ...