The Latest Breaking News from Inequality

Valerie White expressed “grave concerns” over growing income inequality fuelling excess mortality in low income households

Ghana is struggling with managing its debt, 20-year high inflation, a weak currency, and rising inequality. For example, inflation rose to 33.9% in August 2022 from 9.7% a year earlier, while the cedi has depreciated by 41% year-to-date against the US dollar. These vulnerabilities have been worsened by the aftershocks…

Across several vital sectors, consecutive governments are ingraining systemic inequality with policies that look after the wealthiest.

Liz Truss’s threats of a real-terms cut would ramp up inequality and hamper her beloved growth, says Lalitha Try, a researcher at the Resolution Foundation

Hong Kong (AFP) - Inequality has dramatically worsened in Hong Kong, Oxfam warned Wednesday, placing further pressure on the financial hub's leaders who have been ordered to reduce poverty by Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Editorial: Michael Gove is doing the country a service by resisting a government with no mandate

The Nobel Prize in Physics went to Alain Aspect, John Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger for their experiments on photon entanglement.

UN special rapporteur praises step in right direction but says ‘structural inequality is underlying cause of hunger’

Poor and non-white communities are often hardest hit — but FEMA disproportionately aids whiter, wealthier areas