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It’s not just a divide between rich and poor but also between the ultra rich and everyone else. In 2020, a Pennsylvania State University researcher documented how the wealthiest school districts in ...
COMMENTARY As the Occupy protest movement highlighted, the gulf between the rich and poor in this country is enormous and continuing to grow. You can find the same phenomenon happening on college ...
Researchers examining surveys on health and income from people in 32 countries found poor Americans reported worse health than rich U.S. residents in significant numbers.
During the last 45 years, the college-completion gap between the richest and poorest young Americans rose from a 34-percentage-point difference to 46 percentage points. A recent study by the Pell ...
The gap between rich and poor is widening across most developed economies as skilled workers reap more rewards and top executives and bankers benefit from a global job market, the Organization for ...
“New York City has always had extremes of rich and poor,” said Parrott. “But we haven’t had the extremes we have today. “It’s been getting more extreme all the time.
10 Cities Where the Rich and Poor Divide Is the Biggest — and What To Do If You Live in One. Story by Jamie Stone • 4m. Income inequality remains a pressing concern in numerous U.S. cities, ...
BONN, Germany – U.N. climate talks ran into gridlock Thursday as a widening rift between rich and poor countries risked undoing some advances made last year in the decades-long effort to control ...
Ifzal Ali, the chief economist of the Asian Development Bank, argues that the region's growing rich-poor divide could become a political flash point.