This graph tells you that the richest 1 percent has captured more than half of income growth during periods of economic expansion in the 21st century. If more people knew that, would they support ...

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 ...

Why have many countries had difficulties reducing inequalities and what must be done to change this? How is gender inequality impacting the SDGs? As UN DESA gathered global experts at a recent meeting ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. It’s no secret that the United States has a glaring—and growing—problem with ...

New data from the World Health Organization reveals that many governments’ public funding of health care falls short of what is needed to meet their human rights obligations. The vast majority of ...

The severe impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is clearly seen in the numbers: more than 3.1 million deaths and rising, 120 million people pushed into extreme poverty, and a massive global recession. As ...

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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 ...

I was recently asked to give the keynote address for a youth leadership conference. In the invitation, they informed me that the conference theme was inequality and that I had only 10 minutes to speak ...