According to the survey, a median of 54% of adults across the countries polled see the wealth gap as a very big problem, while an additional 30% consider the issue moderately big. There is also a wide ...

Conversations on housing costs often focus on zoning rules, but two new studies say declining affordability is due more to rising income.

File - A worker counts money at a grocery store in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Nov. 21, 2023. Prices have surged so dramatically that the government has multiplied the size of its biggest banknote in ...

People around the world see various factors as contributing to economic inequality in their country: A median of 60% across 36 countries say that rich people having too much political influence leads ...

From trade to diversity to immigration, many U.S. corporations are navigating a divisive political climate on a range of issues that impact their businesses. The CEO of the nation’s largest bank, ...

(Opinion) In recent years, Democrats have gained a reputation for being the party that champions social issues, focusing on everything from LGBTQ rights to racial justice. These are essential causes, ...

A report shows that a $50 trillion redistribution of income to benefit the richest has made America less healthy, resilient, ...

Growing dissatisfaction among the population, loss of trust in politics, increase in crime and violence: Economic inequality leads to a variety of social consequences. Nevertheless, the issue plays a ...

The message from William M. Rodgers III, vice president and director of the Institute for Economic Equity at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, was stark. “For a growing number of United States ...

“Inequality is the root of social evil,” according to the late Pope Francis. The French economist and inequality scholar Thomas Piketty has suggested that “inequality denial is as dangerous as climate ...

During President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday, he claimed to be working to improve affordability for U.S. families. But Trump didn’t talk about the root cause of these ...

What caused the Great Recession? This question, not surprisingly, is proving divisive. Just today, The Huffington Post reported that the Republican members of the congressionally-appointed Financial ...