The findings suggest that when workers are free to advocate for higher wages and better benefits for themselves, it also benefits society as a whole.

In a 2023 study, our team looked at 145 countries, including the U.S., to understand the link between labor rights and inequality. We found evidence that strengthening collective labor rights may ...

The homepage for the 7th World Conference on Remedies to Racial and Ethnic Economic Inequality hosted by the Humphrey School ...

Is higher education in India truly an equalizer or a privilege for the elite? Examining the profitability and equity.

Congress hasn’t raised the $7.25 an hour federal minimum wage since 2009. And politicians have crafted a system that taxes the fruits of that hard labor as much as 37 percent. The rich, on the other ...

A UB study finds showing people side-by-side comparisons of different societies can boost support for policies.

New research from the Center for Working-Class Politics shows that progressive economic policies can bring working-class ...

Study highlights how perceived economic inequality undermines individual well-being across 71 countries by Society for Personality and Social Psychology edited by Sadie Harley, reviewed by Andrew ...

Statistics Indonesia (BPS) reported that economic inequality in West Papua Province showed improvement, as reflected by a decline in the Gini index to 0.374 ...

New research published in Social Psychological and Personality Science shows that awareness of economic disparity affects happiness, meaning, harmony and spiritual well-being.

Count on one thing: if Mark Twain, the famed American author of “Tom Sawyer” and “Huckleberry Finn,” were alive today, he ...