Across 36 countries, a median of 54% say the gap between the rich and poor is a very big problem in their nation.

Most people think economic inequality is a big problem for their country, and see the excessive political sway of the rich as the leading cause, according to a report by the Pew Research Center.

In our 36-country survey, we asked respondents how large a problem various types of inequality are in their nation, including ...

Scott Galloway sounded the alarm of a looming revolution based on "out of control income inequality" insisting that our tax ...

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A worldwide survey revealed most people in 31 of 36 countries blame influence of the rich over politics as a cause of the widening income gap.

In 2013, Cobham and Sumner proposed an alternative to the Gini co-efficient: the Palma ratio. They named it after José Gabriel Palma, a Chilean economist. Palma noticed that in most countries, the ...

Robert "Bob" Powell sits down with Lazetta Rainey Braxton, founder and managing principal at The Real Wealth Coterie, to discuss the wealth gap, the value of your human capital, and how education ...

Income inequality in India has decreased post-pandemic, but remains higher than 2015-16, as shown by a recent study.

The Gini index measures the extent to which the distribution of income or consumption among individuals or households within ...

According to the latest available Census data, the state’s poverty rate increased to 18.9% in 2023, up from 16.4% in 2022 and ...