LGBTQ+ people face unequal treatment across different human societies. Several concomitant factors can contribute to this ...

Discover who Simon Kuznets was, his Nobel-winning contributions to economics, and the significance of the Kuznets Curve in understanding economic inequality.

Low-income Americans have missed out on the wealth effects that have benefited the highest earners. The Fed, which has played a role in what economists refer to as the K-shaped economy, can’t easily ...

COVID-19 is increasing economic inequality around the world. On the one hand, the number of people in extreme poverty is on the rise for the first time in decades. The World Bank estimates at least ...

Inequality Matters: The Growing Economic Divide in America and Its Poisonous Consequences, edited by James Lardner and David A. Smith, is a collection of articles on the disparities between rich and ...

While the United States tries to control the coronavirus pandemic and recover from it, economic inequality is still a growing issue for Americans. This divide is even worse for people of color. And ...

Wealth inequality destroys societies and entire countries and is severely damaging to the health and well-being of the poor for generations. Are you ahead, or behind on retirement? SmartAsset’s free ...

Governments shouldn’t be worried that raising taxes on the rich will harm their economies when deciding on how to pay for COVID-19. Our new research on 18 advanced economies shows that major tax cuts ...

Large social and economic inequalities persist among UK doctors, with those from a professional background 6 times more likely to become a medical practitioner than those from a working class ...