Inequality coverage.

Africa: School in a Hot World - What Research Is Saying About Children's Health and Learning

Analysis - Climate change is making southern Africa hotter. While much attention has focused on climate impacts like droughts, floods and food insecurity, another crisis is unfoldi…

POLITICALLY AWEH: Hunger is political: Activist Mark Heywood on SA’s food crisis

What does it say about a country that produces enough food to feed everyone, yet millions still go hungry?……

Tale of two cities as neighboring Bay Area communities reveal state’s staggering income gap

Two Bay Area cities couldn’t be more different as they reveal the staggering income gap in the Golden State where one community struggles to get by and the other lives behind gated…

Brazil takes a historic HDI leap with focused planning and public spending

Brazil's HDI rises significantly due to effective public spending and cash-transfer schemes, despite political controversy and criticism.…

AI Could Use as Much Water as 1.3 Billion People by 2030, U.N. Report Warns

A new U.N. report warns AI’s environmental cost is often mismeasured.…

Who is rich in France?

Is a childless couple wealthy if they earn €6,438 per month after taxes? A new report seeks to address the lack of set criteria for measuring this demographic.…

Elon Musk is set to become the world’s first trillionaire. Democrats are taking aim.

Move over millionaires and billionaires. A new entry to the political lexicon is spreading on the campaign trail.…

Thousands more UK black men to be invited for prostate cancer screening

Health secretary announces expansion of Transform trial but does not back population-wide testing…

The need for a socialist planned economy (2021)

This article is a transcript of the presentation given by Vincent R. Beaudoin at Fightback’s Marxist Winter School 2021. When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Francis Fukuyama t…

Green leaders warn party it must listen to Reform voters’ concerns to tackle inequality

Zack Polanski and Caroline Lucas say party must seek to understand why disenfranchised electorate were attracted to Nigel Farage’s party…

Analysis: An end to the Iran war may be just the beginning of a new era of U.S. inequality

Stocks have boomed while consumers have paid the costs of high energy prices.…

College students feel more pressure to be perfect than they did a generation ago. Research found that increase in perfectionism may be tied to social and economic factors such as rising inequality and slowing economic growth.

‘That’s why we work in finance – so one day we can afford air-con’: Britain’s unequal heatwave

While some found this week’s heat a breeze, many in poorer areas face health risks in furnace-like homes…

The Digital Economy Is Destroying Our Lives and Our Planet

Our world has been flooded by a deluge of digital platforms, their ceaseless flow submerging our daily lives. From the planetary infrastructures of Amazon, Meta, Google, Apple, WeC…

For people with disabilities, these heatwaves aren’t about being uncomfortable – they’re about being safe | Frances Ryan

It’s inequality with a climate-crisis spin: some are more at risk, and they are rarely the people able to afford in-built AC, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan…

Are we undermeasuring inflation for lower earners?

We document a new source of fluctuations in inflation inequality. When the cost of upstream inputs rises, varieties within a product category tend to have similar absolute price in…

The economic gap between generations is on track to reach record levels

According to research from the Actuaries Institute, inequality between the younger and older generations is widening, and could reach record levels within years.…

How do Californians tolerate extreme inequality?

In their new book, 'Normalizing Inequality,' UC Berkeley professors G. Cristina Mora and Tianna Paschel detail the mental gymnastics Golden State residents use to reconcile a progr…

Why is economic inequality the status quo?

Social media group calls for change while exposing inequality in sport

Not All Clubs calls out inequality in sporting organisations across the country. This weekend, the group is calling on teams to wear red armbands in memory of the women whose lives…

Wes Streeting casts off ‘Blairite’ image with scathing attack on Tony Blair

The former health secretary and Labour leadership hopeful has attacked Sir Tony Blair’s 5,600 word essay for failing to mention ‘inequality’ and taken a side swipe over the Iraq wa…

The Guardian view on Tony Blair’s advice for Labour: policymaking like it’s 1999 will not lead to a revival | Editorial

Editorial: A scathing essay by the former prime minister rehashes assumptions that underpinned his own rise to power. But the challenges are quite different now…

Blair wants to leave our future to the markets. I believe democracy can still shape our lives for the better | Wes Streeting

The inequality caused by technological innovation is not a given. Labour can harness that change to serve society, not dominate it, says Labour MP Wes Streeting…

Could a Universal Currency Reduce Global Inequality?

Blair’s advice for Labour fails to engage with inequality, senior party figures say

Andy Burnham and Torsten Bell say the former Labour PM’s essay does not address today’s challenges…

Burnham accuses Blair of ignoring inequality as he hits back at ex-PM

The Labour mayor and by-election candidate rejects the former PM's call to embrace the "radical centre".…

Burnham hits back at ‘out of touch’ Blair and blames centrists like him for rise of Farage

The party’s most successful former leader and prime minister has issued a scathing indictment of Labour…

Economists Gabriel Zucman and Emmanuel Saez, the two 'Frenchies' campaigning to tax the fortunes of California's billionaires

California's 250 billionaires have amassed staggering wealth while paying very little in taxes, the two French researchers criticized in an op-ed for the 'New York Times.' They sup…

Feel the Bern? Sanders Spent Lavishly on Private Jets, Limos for ‘Fighting Oligarchy’ Tour

There's one thing you can rely on utterly with creatures of the far left; it's always…

Graham Platner vows to ‘come after’ Bezos as Senate hopeful escalates billionaire tax fight

Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner dismisses Jeff Bezos' opposition to higher billionaire taxes as abject nonsense amid the 2026 election cycle.…

Why Billionaires Pay Much Less Tax Than the Average American

As wealth concentrates at the top, upper-crust tax rates have declined. Go figure.…

Platner takes aim at Susan Collins: ‘We will defeat the oligarchy’

Graham Platner, Democratic candidate for Senate in Maine, delivered a fiery speech alongside Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) and former Maine State Sen. Troy Jackson during a tour stop …

The Case for California's Billionaire Wealth Tax

Silicon Valley’s growth over recent decades has made California rich — and one of the most unequal places in America.…

The agentic divide: Why “good enough” AI isn’t enough to survive the new economy

A widening gap in agent quality is creating a two-tier system where well-resourced firms scale infinitely while small players are trapped by high-friction, "low-trust" tools.…

It’s a Rich Man’s Disney World

Forget fairy godmothers or genies—money will get you what you want.…

More Canadians will inherit their family home, entrenching inequality across generations

Issue remains absent from Canada’s housing policy discussions, even though it’s one we should all be concerned about…

The pope’s AI encyclical isn’t really about AI

Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical uses AI as a lens to diagnose older problems: concentrated power, eroding democracy, and a tech elite that shapes the world to its own advantage.…

Status quo hampering upliftment of nomadic communities: Chetan Ahimsa

Social activist Chetan Ahimsa, on Sunday, said that the prevailing social system continues to hinder the progress of poor and nomadic communities. He was speaking after interacting…

Do you think Bitcoin is creating financial freedom, or just a new digital version of wealth inequality?

Rising income inequality drives anti-immigrant politics and Republican realignment. The association between anti-immigrant attitudes and Republican voting is stronger in high-inequality contexts.

The devil owns Amazon: big tech has infiltrated the fashion world - will we see a revolt?

Anna Wintour has welcomed the Bezoses – and their patronage – with open arms. But after a controversial Met Gala, industry insiders are less enthusiastic…

Inequality Fell as (Bronze Age) Mohenjo-Daro Grew

New Gini analysis of Bronze Age house sizes shows the Indus city became more egalitarian over four centuries, not less…

I’ve spent 25 years in venture capital. Here’s how it quietly shut ordinary Americans out of the AI wealth boom—and what could fix it

The private market didn't just grow. It replaced the system that once let regular investors participate in America's biggest wealth-creation moments. One solution keeps getting ign…

India is being left to die in the heat

Modi denied climate change for years. Now, as heat deaths mount, his government offers branding instead of protection.…

Geopolitical Chaos is Wrecking Pandemic Agreements

U.S. dysfunction is undercutting attempts at equality.…

Major immigration study shows 'great blending' is underway in France, but inequalities persist

The second edition of a large-scale sociological survey reveals a rapid convergence in the cultural and social practices of immigrants and their descendants with those of the wider…

Music industry risks excluding working-class talent, says Tinie Tempah

Singer Skye Newman also highlights how becoming a performer is becoming inaccessible to those without money The music industry risks becoming a more hostile place for working-class…

Bankrolling the Nation

Plus: Iran, hooters, DoorDash oppression, and more...…

Jeff Bezos, you were so close to making a good point

"Why is a nurse in Queens who makes $75,000 a year paying more than $1,000 a month in taxes?" Bezos said Wednesday morning on CNBC. "That's $1,000 that could help with rent, or gro…

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos calls for zero income taxes on bottom half of earners: ‘Stop taxing them’

Bezos said the income taxes paid by lower earners represent “a small amount of money for the government."…

The End of the Voting Rights Act Isn’t Just a “Black Problem”

Preserving racial hierarchy remains one of most animating impulses in American political life. The post The End of the Voting Rights Act Isn’t Just a “Black Problem” appeared first…

My Friends Have the Wrong Idea About How We Bought Our House. I’m Not Sure If I Should Correct Them.

It's just not true.…

Britain must think like a hot country – otherwise inequalities will only grow

The government must act to redress the unequal impact of climate change, or risk rising temperatures making disparities worse UK ‘built for climate that no longer exists’ and needs…

Gary Stevenson says 'your kids will be poorer than you' — as U.S. income inequality widens

NHS rollout of artificial pancreas narrows inequality in diabetes care

Exclusive: People from deprived and minority ethnic backgrounds have better access to device than for previous technologies The rollout of a “life-changing” artificial pancreas on …

The education gap between rich and poor students is growing. These schools may have the answer

The chasm between rich and poor students in Australia has been growing over the past two decades, new research shows, but some schools are closing that gap.…

From LLM-Generated Conjectures to Lean Formalizations: Automated Polynomial Inequality Proving via Sum-of-Squares Certificates

Automated proving of polynomial inequalities is a fundamental challenge in automated mathematical reasoning, where rich algebraic structure and a rapidly growing certificate search…

Government-backed Pensions Commission calls for action on gender savings gap

Body says, on average, British women approaching retirement have half private pension savings of men – £81,000 versus £156,000 A shake-up of pensions in Britain must involve measur…

10 Sunday Reads

Avert your eyes! My Sunday morning look at incompetency, corruption and policy failures: • Trump’s China Trip Underscores How Power Has Shifted East. Given that Trump explodes at e…

Tech bros are getting what they deserve — after backing left for years

California’s tech oligarchs are portraying themselves as victims, as the left clamors to tax their wealth away. Perhaps they should take some responsibility. Once widely admired as…