Countries with high levels of inequality are seven times more likely to experience democratic backsliding, including erosion ...

The richest people on the planet are far more likely to be in power politically than everyone else, Oxfam’s annual inequality report found.

Billionaires are not just richer than everyone else, they are statistically thousands of times more likely to end up running ...

The total number of billionaires in the world has now reached 3,000 for the first time ever, while nearly half of the world’s population lives in poverty, the report says ...

Charity says superrich 4,000 times more likely to hold political power than others and own all social media companies.

Ahead of the World Economic Forum in Davos, an Oxfam report warned that billionaire wealth hit a record USD 18.3 trillion in ...

According to the survey, a median of 54% of adults across the countries polled see the wealth gap as a very big problem, while an additional 30% consider the issue moderately big. There is also a wide ...

In 1977, the richest 0.1% of families owned about 7% of total household wealth. By 2016, their share had almost tripled to about 20%. The increase has attracted attention among policymakers and ...

Growing dissatisfaction among the population, loss of trust in politics, increase in crime and violence: Economic inequality leads to a variety of social consequences. Nevertheless, the issue plays a ...

Prof. Benjamin Page, political science, Northwestern University, attributed political inequality in the United States to the legislative system and unequal representation at a lecture Monday. Page’s ...