U.S. inequality is egregious, but it’s far less egregious when measured correctly. But understanding our true degree of inequality is important, especially for the many Democratic presidential ...

Income inequality between countries may have eased in recent decades, but the gap within nations continues to widen. Take France: Its poverty rate clocked 15.4 percent in 2023, th ...

On the Presidio's historic Soldier Field the morning of Jan. 13, hidden within the physical challenges and friendly competition, was a practical lesson for the Marines on inequality. Unknowingly, the ...

Voters in Alaska, Arkansas and South Dakota all replaced their Democratic senators with Republicans on Tuesday. Those same voters raised the minimum wage in their states. In Nebraska, 65 percent of ...

Elise, a nursing student at an elite U.S. university in the Northeast, found herself back home and sleeping on the floor of her parents’ one-bedroom apartment after the COVID-19 pandemic was declared ...

In this lesson, students will watch a video from Democracy Now! about the recent Poor People's Campaign march in Washington, D.C. and answer questions about the aims of the movement and the way that ...

Inequality of wealth and income in America is wider than at any point since the Roaring Twenties. Despite that, it wasn’t a topic of much debate in the election this year. One person who has paid ...

Today’s state of extreme economic inequality is a problem best approached with science — using it to make specific measurements, identify root causes, and develop workable solutions. Archaeology is ...

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.