Consider this shocking statistic on income inequality: The eight richest men on earth control as much wealth as half of the global population, or the poorest 3.6 billion people. While those are global ...

Paul Constant is a writer at Civic Ventures and the cohost of the "Pitchfork Economics" podcast. He spoke with professor Oded Galor, who wrote a book about the history of wealth inequality. Galor said ...

Taxing the rich to help the poor and middle class has defined the presidential campaigns of Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. Skeptics of the proposal argue that a wealth tax of this ...

COWEN: Some of the inequality problem really is about some people not having enough discipline and conscientiousness. Let's take Matt's example of the growing gap in life expectancy between rich poor.

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Earnings inequality in America has increased since 1979 — that much we know. But why and what to do about it is murky — in part because we’re not all talking about the same group of people when we ...

A year ago, the United Nations Development Programme, released a report titled "Income Inequality Trends in sub-Saharan Africa: Divergence, Determinants, and Consequences" to provide policy guidance ...

You might consider America's vast wealth inequality, vividly illustrated in this viral video, to be offensive, infuriating, or irrelevant. But it is not terribly mysterious. Rich people have more ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Taarini Kaur Dang is a venture capitalist, speaker, and book author. Gender inequality has been a hotly debated topic in recent ...

A family on the average wage would have to bank every single penny for 43 years to reach the wealthiest 10 per cent. By Torsten Bell This year, average wages are set to be flat. British households, ...