Bilingual sign on door of frozen food aisle, We accept SNAP food stamp cards, Walgreens, Queens, New York. (Photo by: Lindsey Nicholson/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) The richest 1% of ...
Individuals with learning disabilities have long faced health inequalities. It remains a serious issue in the UK’s health system, highlighted by the large proportion of premature deaths in the ...
Imagine society as a ladder with 10 rungs. Where would you place yourself? That answer reflects your subjective social status—where you see yourself in society. Importantly, this is not necessarily ...
“Inequality is bad for economic growth and bad for poverty reduction. In the past researchers were not able to exactly quantify the effect of inequality in the context of economic shocks. This graph ...
Christina E. Hoicka received funding from the Canada Research Chair Secretariat, New Frontiers in Research Fund, MITACs, SSHRC, NSERC, McConnell Foundation, Transition Accelerator, Natural Resources ...
Global inequalities are in bad shape and mostly do not appear to be getting better. Disparities today are about the same as they were in the early 20th century, and the pandemic continues to make ...
A new study from the World Inequality Lab finds that the present-day golden era of Indian billionaires has produced soaring income inequality in India—now among the highest in the world and starker ...
How corporate power divides our world and the need for a new era of public action Since 2020, the richest five men in the world have doubled their fortunes. During the same period, almost five billion ...
During the past two decades, Thailand has made progress towards reducing its significant levels of inequality. Yet inequality remains high. In 2021, with an income Gini coefficient of 43.3 percent, ...