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Coming out of the pandemic, the Bank of America Institute's David Tinsley tells Fortune, "There was a narrowing of wealth ...
Connecticut’s first-in-the-nation baby bonds program invests in the state’s poorest families to help those born in poverty ...
A new study published in The Journal of Social Psychology indicates that women who express anger about gender inequality tend ...
The president has pitched his trade policies at workers who feel left behind by globalization. But that doesn’t mean trade ...
The poorest Filipino households recorded faster income growth in recent years and helped bring inequality to its lowest level ...
She promptly called on someone else. I sighed. As an economist who studies inequality and families, I have often found myself in the same position as the questioner.
For many children, a variety of healthy snacks bridge a gap between lunch and dinnertime. Others eat foods that lack vital ...
But inequality hurts the richest, too — at least that’s what the philosopher Ingrid Robeyns argues in “Limitarianism,” a book coming out early next year.
“Inequality so mimics poverty in our minds that the United States of America . . . has a lot of features that better resemble a developing nation than a superpower,” he writes.