The Latest Breaking News from Inequality

Wealth inequality intensifies the demand for luxury goods as a growing affluent class seeks exclusive, high-end products. This dynamic is fueling the luxury goods market's expansion. Thus, sound luxury stocks Ferrari (RACE), H & M (HNNMY), and Ralph Lauren (RL) could make wise additions to one's portfolio. Read on….

Friederike Otto, of World Weather Attribution, says poor people and outdoor workers are dying around the world

South Africa has exceptionally high levels of inequality. As someone who studies issues of inequality and sustainability, I have argued before that South Africa’s income inequality is the highest of all countries that have data on this. This means that the gap between the rich and the poor is wider…

Wealth disparity will soon destroy any ‘semblance of equality’ in Australian society, Australia Institute research finds

Bridget Phillipson says she is determined to reduce attainment gap as teenagers anticipate A-level results

After more than a decade of stop-start minimum wage policy under the Conservatives, much has been made of the incoming Labour government’s intentions to raise the national minimum wage up to the level of a “real living wage”.

India’s middle class is a bit like me. When unhappy we both simmer for a while, get more and more resentful and then explode suddenly. Once our rage is out in the open, we start looking for random reasons to fuel our fury.This is precisely what we are seeing with…

Chinese President Xi Jinping has laid out his vision for China’s economic and social future – and it places Xi Jinping at the very center.

As Venezuela's opposition contests the re-election of President Nicolas Maduro, we take a closer look at the South American country's economic challenges. Hyperinflation, which reached a peak in 2019, may have subsided but it has underlined issues with wealth inequality and dependence on the oil sector. In addition, Caracas is…