Nearly one-third of U.S. household wealth was held by the top 1% in the third quarter of 2025.

In 1825, a tax collector compiling a census in South Africa’s Cape Colony paused to write a poem in the margin of his work. In it, he complained about the idle chatter of townsmen in Stellenbosch and ...

Wealth league tables promise clarity, ranking countries by how fairly they share prosperity. Yet when those scorecards label the Netherlands and the USA as outliers, they often obscure more than they ...

DAVOS, Switzerland - Global inequality was a central theme at the World Economic Forum this week in Davos, as some of the ...

Cash transfers offer governments a quick, visible response to rising inequality, but they risk masking deeper distortions. As fiscal pressures mount, essential services suffer. To address wide gaps ...

Overview: Massive AI investments boost tech giants and investors, while worker wages grow slowly, widening the global wealth ...

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer recently told National Public Radio that America is ready for a female president.

Ironically, the solution to the male loneliness epidemic is to avoid gendered talk that frames things as “men vs. women.” In ...

“We know tax breaks for wealthy property investors are a key driver of the housing crisis and intergenerational inequality but Labor refuses to act. This government has an opportunity to fix the ...

Nearly 400 millionaires and billionaires from 24 countries have called on world leaders to raise taxes on the super-rich, warning that extreme wealth is undermining democracy and deepening inequality.