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The Gilded Age was a period of enormous wealth for some and extreme poverty for others.
The gap between the country's highest- and lowest-income households reached a record high in the first quarter of 2025, ...
A groundbreaking international study of 161,981 participants across 40 countries published in Nature Medicine reveals that ...
The 2025 Silicon Valley Pain Index, an annual study produced by San Jose State University’s Human Rights Institute, reveals a ...
Doreen Bogdan-Martin, who leads the UN's International Telecommunications Union, is urging countries to team up on worldwide rules for artificial intelligence. She's worried that without a shared plan ...
Such a disparity between the haves and have nots has costs that undermine democracy, such as a lessening of social bonds.
The Founders would be horrified by these developments because they believed great wealth in politics would corrupt and ...
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.
Even if the precision of the World Bank’s inequality estimates is discounted, a significant improvement in India’s ...
President Obama has recently called economic inequality “the defining challenge of our time,” and has devoted significant elements of his proposed budget to meeting it. Other Democrats, such ...
Everyday language subtly perpetuates gender inequality through seemingly harmless phrases. These expressions reinforce ...