The gap between rich and poor has reached historic highs. According to the World Inequality Report 2026, released in recent ...

Paris-based World Inequality Lab’s 2026 report paints a grim picture of highly skewed wealth distribution, urging nations to ...

Growth over the last decade has been "broad-based" and the consumption gap among the rich and poor in both urban and rural ...

Zambia ranks fifth among the countries with the widest gap between rich and poor. Zambia has a Gini coefficient score of 88.6. Mexico has one of the widest gaps between rich and poor. The top 10% of ...

The American middle class is shrinking. According to a report released earlier this year, an estimated 51% of the population was in the middle class at the start of the decade, down from 61% 40 years ...

Could the information economy help narrow the gap between the rich and the poor? That’s the implication of a sweeping new study appearing in the journal Science. The research corrals data from 21 ...

Men with the poorest standard of living in France have an average life expectancy of 72 years, compared to those in the ...

Davos, Switzerland — The world could have its first trillionaire within a decade, anti-poverty organization Oxfam International said Monday in its annual assessment of global inequalities timed to ...

The gap between the rich and poor in America is huge and well-known. But what’s not very well known is just how large it is. According to the London School of Economics and Political Science, “The ...

The growing gap between prosperous and struggling Americans stems more from changes in marital patterns than any policies of Wall Street or Washington. A New York Times report shows that thirty years ...

Our compulsory public school system is supposed to be “the great equalizer.” By providing the same schooling to everyone, it is supposed to promote equal opportunities for young people regardless of ...

(Reuters) - The 30-nation OECD released a report on Tuesday on the growing gap between rich and poor in many of its member states. Here are some of the findings on a country-by-country basis. More ...