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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wherever you live these days, you’re likely seeing plenty of evidence that political polarization is increasing all around you. Some of this polarization is reinforcing conventional left-right fault ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Economists usually gauge a country’s economic health by looking at its gross domestic product as measured through total spending ...

In 1977, the richest 0.1% of families owned about 7% of total household wealth. By 2016, their share had almost tripled to about 20%. The increase has attracted attention among policymakers and ...

The former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci warned that rising wealth inequality in the United States ...

Nigeria ranked 130th out of 146 countries in the Global Gender Gap report. Neoliberal tropes have posited this as a regional problem, whereby gender inequalities have prevailed as intrinsic to a ...

Is inequality back as a political issue? Senator Bernie Sanders seems to think so. He is leading a “Fighting Oligarchy” tour that has drawn thousands of people in several Midwestern cities. Railing ...

Economic inequality and political participation are deeply intertwined phenomena that shape the health and inclusivity of democracies worldwide. Disparities in income and wealth generate distinct ...

In response to the disproportionate influence of the well-off that I document in Affluence & Influence some have argued that policy reflects (and perhaps should reflect) the preferences of the ...

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