Editor’s Note: Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) is a member of the House Appropriations Committee and ranking member of the Subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations. She serves as co-chair of ...

Sen. Bernie Sanders has criticized the growing wealth disparity in the country, citing the staggering increase in the ...

The globe's 2,750 billionaires now control 3% of all wealth, up from 1% in 1995 — that makes them wealthier than half the planet, according to a new report from a group founded by economist Thomas ...

A mobile billboard calling for higher taxes on the ultra-wealthy depicts an image of billionaire businessman Jeff Bezos, near the US Capitol on May 17, 2021, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Drew Angerer ...

With each passing year wealth becomes concentrated in the hands of a smaller and smaller number of individuals and corporations. It is estimated that by 2030 the richest 1% in the world will possess ...

It’s been nearly a decade since the city made national headlines with the finding by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston that Black households in Greater Boston had an average net worth of just $8 ...

Zohran Mamdani’s historic victory for the working class in the financial capital of the world is a reflection of the growing appeal of bold platforms that attack extreme inequality and oligarchy and ...

Global income and wealth inequality have been a prime reason why the world suffers from economic crises each year. Income inequality has been a dark reality of the world for ages, initially created ...

Fatema Z. Sumar previously worked as the Vice President of Global Programs at Oxfam America. U.S. income inequality grew in 2021 for the first time in a decade, according to data the Census Bureau ...

Just 1% of Indians hold about 40% of total wealth in the country, making income inequality in India among the highest in the world and “showing little improvement”, according to the World Inequality ...