Hundreds of top economists and other experts, including former U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, called on Friday for the ...

UChicago political scientist Susan C. Stokes analyzes the current moment while offering solutions to a polarized public ...

Meritocracy is a modern “myth” that perpetuates inequality, blocks opportunity, and harms the common good, a professor argued ...

Columbia University professor and Nobel Prize laureate Joseph Stiglitz warns that unchecked inequality is pushing America toward economic and political peril.

WASHINGTON - The latest U.S. Census Bureau data reveals persistent income inequality and racial earnings disparities in ...

More than 500 economists and other leading experts, including a Nobel laureate and a former United States treasury secretary, ...

In Francesco Duina's latest collection, The Social Acceptance of Inequality: On the Logics of a More Unequal World (Oxford ...

High levels of inequality, within and between countries, are making the world more vulnerable to pandemics, making pandemics more economically disruptive and deadly, and making them last longer; ...

Land inequality is growing worldwide, threatening the livelihoods of 2.5 billion people who directly rely on farming and ...

Many young people in Mexico say they are frustrated with systemic problems that plague the nation, including corruption and ...

A 2 percent wealth tax is like shaving off a fraction of a spire from a large cathedral, says economist Nancy Folbre.