Even among 2024 Trump voters, a plurality (34 percent) felt that taxes on billionaires were too low, while just 12 percent ...

A sweeping global report reveals that the world's tiniest elite now controls three times the wealth of humanity's poorest half, and calls to action fall on governments and the ultra-wealthy.

A tiny slice of the global elite owns three times more wealth than the bottom half of the world’s population combined, a new ...

The world is more unequal than ever, and South Africa remains among the countries with the highest levels of wealth and ...

The impact case is clear, and the business case is even stronger. Broad-based ownership builds companies that last. It keeps wealth circulating within communities instead of extracting it, and it ...

Among the most hotly debated topics in economic policy these days is a wealth tax on billionaires — a levy targeting the ...

The World Inequality Report 2026, the third report in the series after earlier 2018 and 2022 editions, is based on the work ...

Income inequality is one of the most important measures of economic health, social justice and quality of life. More reliably ...

Income and wealth inequality in Pakistan remain sharply skewed, with the richest 10 percent of the population taking 42 ...

Wealth inequality by race remains staggeringly high, but it has gradually declined throughout the pandemic. This is different from the experience of the Great Recession, when after 2007 the disparity ...

The gap between rich and poor has reached historic highs. According to the World Inequality Report 2026, released in recent ...

Congress reacted to the massive economic turmoil brought on by the pandemic with a series of large-scale interventions. Those helped boost wealth for all households. Lower-income and middle-income ...