By 2018, inequality was between 35.3 and 49.4% lower than it was in 1990.” In other words, this progress has been widely shared, to the great benefit of the people at the bottom of the distribution.

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 new study helps us better understand one of the possible driving forces behind the erosion of democratic norms and institutions: economic inequality. Published in PNAS , this large cross-national ...

Wrestling With Inequality, Some Conservatives Redraw Economic Blueprint A growing number of Republican politicians and theorists are challenging party orthodoxy on pocketbook issues, corporate ...

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 ...

image: “Inequality is bad for economic growth and bad for poverty reduction. In the past researchers were not able to exactly quantify the effect of inequality in the context of economic shocks.

If economic inequality increases within a country, the risk of civil war breaking out grows. This is the finding from a study by the Chair of Economic History at the University of Tübingen ...

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.

A newly published study (“Economic inequality is fueled by population scale, land-limited production, and settlement hierarchies across the archaeological record,” PNAS, April 14, 2025 ...

WASHINGTON — To reduce racial inequality in the U.S. criminal justice system, local, state, and federal government should explore ways to reduce police stops and searches, jail detention, prison ...