Liabilities cover what a household owes: a car loan, credit card balance, student loan, mortgage, or any other bill yet to be paid. In the United States, wealth inequality runs even more pronounced ...

Racial inequality in terms of the official poverty rate is also particularly acute for women of color. As National Women’s Law Center research shows, while in 2019 the U.S. poverty rate for white men ...

From 1988 and 2008, the wealthiest 5 per cent of people captured 44 per cent of global income, while little changed for the poorest. In developing countries, income inequality rose by 11 per cent ...

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Income inequality is important, but attempts to measure it arrive at strikingly different conclusions. Why? We use recent disputes over measuring United States income inequality to return to first ...

2018, Book: "Inequality is widely regarded as morally objectionable: T. M. Scanlon investigates why it matters to us. Demands for greater equality can seem puzzling, because it can be unclear what ...

Does sharing salaries in job postings help address the gender pay gap? March 15 was Equal Pay Day, the first in a series of reminders of how persistent the pay gap has been. More states and cities ...

Demand that Congress tax the ultra-rich and corporations and invest in people and the planet to create a more equal future.

Show the inequality \(y \textless 2\) on a number line. \(y\) is less than (<) 2, which means an open circle at 2 must be used. \(y\) is less than 2, so an arrow below the values of 2 must be ...

Worldwide, women only make 77 cents for every dollar earned by men. As a result, there’s a lifetime of income inequality between men and women and more women are retiring into poverty. This stubborn ...

To the layman’s eye, the spectacle is simple: a man glides across the ice, jumps and spins, lands, and continues to glide. But Jimmy Ma, a 29-year-old professional figure skater himself, points ...