Does living in an unequal society make people unhappy? Not necessarily, reveals the largest study ever conducted on the ...

Rising economic inequality, unemployment, and financial stress remains the key factors shaping the youth population's ...

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Income inequality between countries may have eased in recent decades, but the gap within nations continues to widen. Take France: Its poverty rate clocked 15.4 percent in 2023, the highest since ...

The Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics hosted economist John Voorheis, for speaker series “Housing Capital and ...

Raising the minimum wage can help address economic inequality, but support has declined as the gap between rich and poor has increased, according to new research from the School of Management.

“Dilexi te.” In English, “I have loved you.” That is the title of Pope Leo XIV’s first teaching, released last week. Now, Marketplace doesn’t often cover the minutiae and teachings of the Holy See.

While the U.S. economy outperforms other rich countries, it doesn’t feel that way for many Americans. Forty-two percent of Americans don’t have an emergency savings fund, while 40% can’t afford a ...

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 ...

A new study published in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion provides detailed evidence that some evangelical church leaders use sermons to justify economic inequality, even when ...

The divergence seems to be due to higher income groups benefiting disproportionately from policy changes and also because ...

We are trying to raise ourselves by our own bootstraps given that our community generally lacks capital. Credit is a privilege associated with wealth. Black people have generally had fewer assets, ...