For many employees, the traditional pay cycle—typically monthly or biweekly—is sufficient to meet their financial obligations. However, those who are living paycheck-to-paycheck may be forced to spend ...

Early in her career, Prof. Susan C. Stokes saw a wave of democratization. In Southern Europe, Latin America and the former Soviet Union, authoritarian regimes were tumbling. But in this first quarter ...

Gallo and Mori are graduate students of social work at University of Southern California. Gallo lives in Los Angeles. Mori is a resident of San Diego. Boom! Just like that, the news hit us like a ton ...

The level of economic inequality in the city of Santiago in Brazil is evident along the border of a high-density, low-income favela neighborhood next to high-rise ...

Lauren Giella is a Senior Reporter based in New York. She reports on Newsweek's rankings content, focusing on workplace culture, health care and sustainability, profiling business leaders and ...

On February 11, 2026, SFU Public Square and SFU Centre for Dialogue welcomed community members, students, researchers, and practitioners to the SFU Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue for Economics for ...

Climate change and economic inequality are deeply interconnected, with the potential to exacerbate each other if left unchecked. A new study published in Nature Climate Change sheds light on this ...

Professor Deaton (Angus, if I can be so bold to be on a first-name basis with a Nobel Prize winner), sharing this (imagined) meal together is a pleasure. Now that we are on the second bottle of this ...

New research published in Social Psychological and Personality Science shows that awareness of economic disparity affects happiness, meaning, harmony and spiritual well-being. A comprehensive new ...

People around the world see various factors as contributing to economic inequality in their country: A median of 60% across 36 countries say that rich people having too much political influence leads ...

This story contains details about suicide that may be disturbing to some readers. Our team here at Marketplace is taking an introduction to economics class as part of what we’re calling the ...

Economic inequality in the U.S. has been rising steadily over the past few decades, and this increase has not gone unnoticed by Americans. In this episode of our Trust in America video series, our ...