A two-day seminar hosted by the Emengini Institute for Comparative Global Studies will look at issues of inequality, and ways ...

Humans have always shaped the societies they live in. Farming changed the way people lived thousands of years ago. It has ...

Hawaiʻi has a long history of civil rights that extends to many different groups and peoples before the Illegal overthrow of ...

James Poterba is the Mitsui Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the President and CEO of the NBER. His research straddles the fields of public and financial ...

If someone can’t afford to be in the stock market, the one thing they used to be able to rely on was building equity in a ...

A film by Richard Master and Toby Hubner examines America's growing wealth gap, with proceeds from its Bethlehem premiere ...

As Congress debates tax cuts and safety-net reforms in the One Big Beautiful Bill, a major line of attack against the proposal is that it would worsen inequality, which, to hear some critics tell it, ...

Overhauling ageing power grids, low carbon systems and nuclear are some of the options African countries are adopting ...

Professor Goldburn P. Maynard Jr. of the Indiana University Kelley School of Business discusses the U.S. tax code’s effect on wealth inequality and how race has shaped the distribution of wealth.

In another way, however, the inequality already present in the economy became more visible than ever this year. With delivery services, restaurant couriers and personal shopping apps, low-wage ...