Africa’s Richest Economy Tops the World in Income Inequality Something doesn’t add up in Johannesburg. A country that mints millionaires faster than any other on the African continent — 41,100 at last ...

Thousands of fast food workers took to the streets this week, staging strikes in protest over their low pay. In states where the minimum wage has not been raised above the federal level, if a worker ...

Several factors help explain why economist Thomas Piketty's groundbreaking new book on economic inequality has been such a surprise hit. First, "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" is based on an ...

The United States has the highest income gap in the developed world, and it's affecting how kids do in school, new research suggests. A new study reports that 10-year-olds' scores on standardized math ...

COVID-19 WAS never going to be good for the poor. At first, however, the disease was not associated with rising inequality. Richer economies tended to suffer larger declines in GDP per person than ...