Growing up in a society with a wide gap between the rich and the poor is linked to higher rates of depressive symptoms later ...

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, ...

A global study led by a researcher at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and published in the journal Scientific Reports finds that economic inequality on a social level cannot be ...

Income inequality is one of the most important measures of economic health, social justice and quality of life. More reliably trackable than wealth inequality, which was recently given a gloomy report ...

The level of economic inequality in the city of Santiago in Brazil is evident along the border of a high-density, low-income favela neighborhood next to high-rise ...

While evidence has long shown that higher income inequality is associated with poorer population health outcomes, a new study from researchers at the University of Rhode Island College of Health ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Income inequality in California has reached one of the highest levels ...

A rising share of income is going to high earners whose wages increasingly fall above the Social Security's payroll tax cap.

Early morning magenta light illuminates clouds and the Moulton Barn on Mormon Row at the foot of the Grand Tetons near Jackson, Wyoming. Teton County, home to the affluent and famous Jackson Hole, has ...

For the first time in Social Security's 90-year history, we witnessed the average monthly retired-worker benefit surpass $2,000. Additionally, the 2.7% cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) passed along to ...

A global study led by a researcher at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and published in the journal Scientific Reports(link is external and opens in a new window) finds that ...