Wherever you live these days, you’re likely seeing plenty of evidence that political polarization is increasing all around you. Some of this polarization is reinforcing conventional left-right fault ...
Growing dissatisfaction among the population, loss of trust in politics, increase in crime and violence: Economic inequality leads to a variety of social consequences. Nevertheless, the issue plays a ...
Safe air is disproportionately concentrated in more affluent communities, while minorities and low income populations are ...
One factor that helped entrench wealth inequality five millennia ago was the advent of the ox-drawn plow, finds a recent paper in the Journal of Economic Literature. Credit: Richard Nicolaüs Roland ...
Prof. Benjamin Page, political science, Northwestern University, attributed political inequality in the United States to the legislative system and unequal representation at a lecture Monday. Page’s ...
Wealth league tables promise clarity, ranking countries by how fairly they share prosperity. Yet when those scorecards label the Netherlands and the USA as outliers, they often obscure more than they ...
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Increasing inequality: The signs of our times
A 2025 report by Oxfam, the global NGO, titled Unequal: The Rise of a New American Oligarchy and the Agenda we Need, highlights the growing number of global billionaires. At the same time, one in four ...
The Cluster of Excellence "The Politics of Inequality" at the University of Konstanz will continue to receive funding through the German Excellence Strategy for another seven years. The German ...
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