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 ...

Rwanda will test technology powered by artificial intelligence in more than 50 health clinics as part of a new initiative by ...

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 ...

Read in full: Millionaires and billionaires sign open letter demanding higher taxes on the super-rich - ‘The super-rich are ...

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

It’s no surprise then that the District of Columbia—where 43.4% of the population is Black, according to government census ...