Inequality contributes to the death of at least one person every four seconds. Ahead of the Davos Agenda—the World Economic Forum’s virtual State of the World sessions—Oxfam released our annual ...

Inequality has either peaked or is growing much more slowly, depending how you measure it. We'll see if this trend continues, or if inequality picks back up. But I do there are some reasons to be ...

Inequality in life expectancy has widened in America. But at least we’re narrowing inequality at birth. July 21, 2014 (Data provided by Jay Olshansky of the University of Illinois in Chicago) ...

When corporations based in areas of above-average income inequality pay more taxes, it’s not just the public that appreciates it – investors do, too. That’s the key finding of our recent ...

Brazil’s income inequality in 2018 reached its highest level since the start of the national statistics’ series in 2012, according to data released Wednesday, reflecting an economic downturn ...

Vaccine boosters are fast becoming the ultimate symbol of pandemic inequality. While much of the world struggles with procuring doses of the coronavirus vaccines, leaving health workers and other ...

Vladimir Putin has called income inequality "absolutely unacceptable," but in Russia just 111 people control nearly 20 percent of all wealth.

The disparity highlights the inequality at the heart of American education: Starting very early, children from rich and poor families receive vastly different educations, in and out of school ...

Income inequality in the U.S. is at its highest level in more than 50 years, according to new Census data. The gap between rich and poor is the widest in five states: California, Connecticut ...

Rising economic inequality in the United States has become a central issue in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, and discussions about policy interventions that might help address it ...

After three decades in which rising inequality was largely ignored, it has finally emerged as a serious political issue—or, at least, President Obama is trying to turn it into one.