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The Joint Center launches a Tax Policy Advisory Committee to address economic inequality in Black communities affected by ...

France's poverty rate reached 15.4% in 2023, its highest level since records began in 1996, according to data from the ...

As Congress debates tax cuts and safety-net reforms in the One Big Beautiful Bill, a major line of attack against the proposal is that it would worsen inequality, which, to hear some critics tell it, ...

Financing is the engine of development. And right now, this engine is sputtering,” U.N. Secretary General António Guterres ...

Today, the median 401 (k) balance for top-decile earners is about 10 times that of middle-income participants. Indeed, plan participation, balance amounts, and investment outcomes remain skewed toward ...

Jessica Munson, Ph.D., worked with an interdisciplinary team of researchers to analyze house size distributions with findings were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS ...

We speak with former Labor Secretary Robert Reich about the victory of Zohran Mamdani in the New York Democratic primary for ...

Fresh from clinching the Democratic nomination to become New York City’s next mayor, Zohran Mamdani continues to ignite ...

Soaring temperatures in Aussie homes are creating significant issues for the health of renters and housing sustainability – ...

South Africa has a progressive tax system. But there are parts of it that reduce its impact and need to be fixed.