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On more than half of 80 economic, social and environmental targets, progress has stagnated or is moving backwards. But ...

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Unemployment in Latin America and the Caribbean likely fell in 2024, but the inequality gap continued to widen, the ...

Life is a journey filled with highs and lows, joys and sorrows, and moments that shape who we are. Sometimes, a few wise ...

I lead the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, America’s Black think tank. When we opened our doors in 1970, there were only 1,469 Black elected officials in office across the United ...

Today is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science and a time to take stock of progress, and setbacks towards open and gender-inclusive science.

Activist artist Probir Gupta highlights inequalities, injustices and instances of shocking violence in his works. The latest ...

Most inequality analysis focuses on income (the wages earned from a job or from capital gains) rather than wealth (the sum of one’s assets minus debts). Income inequality, while stark, pales in ...

The U.S. federal minimum wage has been frozen at $7.25 an hour since 2009, leaving millions of full-time workers struggling.

Trump’s executive order comes after South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said his country would not be ‘bullied.’ ...