New York, 24 April 2025 – Economic insecurity, staggering levels of inequality, declining social trust and social fragmentation are destabilising societies worldwide. The World Social Report ...

Jamie Dimon, Chairman, J.P. Morgan Chase: It is the most prosperous, most innovative, best economy the world has ever seen. This world of ours lifted billions of people out of poverty.

But since some households had so little to begin with — $7,000 or so in net worth for those in the bottom 20% in 2019 — those big gains didn’t narrow the divide between rich and poor.

The links among economic uncertainty, insecurity and inequality. Alissa Quart of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project observes that a sense of precarity has spread to America’s middle class.

Social, economic and political conditions mirror those seen in the late 1800s. As economic inequality and wealth concentration rise, the U.S. is entering a new era of support for workers' rights ...

How does poverty differ from economic inequality? Poverty is usually defined as not having the means to support basic nutrition, access to safe drinking water, shelter, education, and other needs.

A unique analysis of district-level data reveals why inequality is so destructive to the home consumption welfare of people living below the poverty line, especially during times of significant ...

The beliefs someone holds and the environment in which they live and work shape how much economic inequality people report seeing, according to new research from the School of Management. Two studies ...

It has become commonplace to blame the Baby Boomers for much of the economic woes and unprecedented level of wealth inequality in […] Skip to content Investing ...

That diminishment of economic power, tantamount to invisibility, isn’t a housing problem. It’s an inequality problem, and a humanity problem. Reducing zoning restrictions can help, but not enough.