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By harnessing the power of markets, digital movements like My Black Receipt aim to combat systemic disparities and promote economic empowerment by supporting Black-owned businesses.
The United States has more economic inequality than other wealthy nations.
Economic inequality during the Dutch East Indies era varied radically, depending on where you look. What made the income distribution different from one region to another?
In this time of unrest, insecurity and fear, unions and their new, more diverse leadership offer a path to improving workers’ rights and repairing deep social and economic inequalities.
Even with ongoing unpredictability of the pandemic, there’s a role for principals as activist, socially just leaders in a post-pandemic world.
Providing more decommodified housing alternatives, like co-op, could offer a partial remedy to rampant housing inequality in Canada.
How two Canadian teams of economists and epidemiologists studied COVID-19 from a social science perspective to show that higher national income inequality is associated with worse COVID outcomes.
The latest figures offer new evidence that a K-shaped recovery is following the coronavirus recession – which hit the lowest-paid workers the hardest.
How much money it takes to attain this status varies according to the size of the nonprofit getting the gift.
Employment and wages soared in the latest labor report, but that’s small comfort for the many workers with a job that doesn’t pay a living wage.
We know that the COVID pandemic has increased economic inequality around the world - here’s how children understand, and respond to, other people having much more than others.
Economists estimate the tax on households worth over $50 million could bring in $3 trillion over 10 years, but it will run into constitutional challenges.
Fears of great wealth and the need for economic equality go back to the country’s origins.
The police killing of George Floyd galvanized populations already frustrated by the effects of COVID-19 to take to the streets.
Traditional fishers are one of the most economically vulnerable professions in Indonesia. But, my research found that they are happier than those in other professions.
A careful review of more than 200 letters written by the wealthy people who signed the Giving Pledge over its first decade suggests a big contradiction.
Corporate support for the protests against institutional racism in the US signals the rise of ‘political corporate social responsibility’.
Australians faces an even more unequal future unless post-pandemic housing policy focuses on equity, solidarity and security. .
One in 5 of the poorest US households don’t have a car and rely on public transportation to get around.
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