Corporations and billionaires are increasing their wealth at astounding rates while the rest of us are suffering the consequences of their greed. Oxfam’s new report, “Takers, Not Makers,” explores how ...

Many social and economic factors have a significant impact on one's well-being. Food, water, shelter, education, decent employment, safe working conditions, and so on are all essential for good health ...

Equity Pay Day shows the economic inequality between men and women. In 2025, women in the U.S. needed to work until March 25 to earn what a man earned in the previous year. For Hispanic women, Pay ...

Surges of foreign investment into developing countries can amplify economic stress and potentially undermine their financial stability. New evidence suggests that excessive foreign capital inflows can ...

Earlier this month, scholars working at the London School of Economics argued, “It’s time to face up to power in the debate about wealth inequality.” The authors note that of the various ways we could ...

Photo courtesy of CEPA At the beginning of his book, The Killing Fields of Inequality Göran Therborn says, “Inequality is a ...

The Moderna campus in December 2020 in Norwood, Mass., where the biotechnology company is mass producing its Covid-19 vaccine. The US government subsidized, to the tune of almost $1 billion, the basic ...

Health equity and health equality both aim to improve outcomes and increase access to services, especially for underserved populations and marginalized groups. Equity and equality in healthcare are ...

Income inequality and carbon dioxide emissions for high-income nations such as the United States, Denmark and Canada are intrinsically linked—but a new study from Drexel University has taken a deeper ...

Research has demonstrated that paid sick leave reduces the spread of COVID-19 and other infectious diseases and improves preventive care and access to treatment across a wide range of conditions.