Silicon Valley leaders took part in a poverty simulation meant to highlight the hurdles of being poor in one of the wealthiest regions in the world.

Stigma is a glue that holds poverty, inequality and economic insecurity in place enabling and exacerbating inequalities of wealth, health and opportunity, says a new report. Poverty Stigma is a ...

In October 1936, 200 men marched from South Tyneside to London to protest against the poverty and unemployment in their town, Jarrow. Nearly a century later, Jarrow is taking part in a small pilot ...

In the 1960s, policy shifted from calling for the redistribution of wealth to enforcing an ideology of personal responsibility. “The critical edge of 1963 was blunted in the legislation of 1964, as ...

Learn how to use the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP), the interactive computational tool that offers users quick access to the World Bank’s estimates of poverty, inequality, and shared ...

When in 2022 the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) released figures indicating that at least 63% of people living in the country, about 133 million persons, were multidimensionally poor, fresh ...

“Inequality is bad for economic growth and bad for poverty reduction. In the past researchers were not able to exactly quantify the effect of inequality in the context of economic shocks. This graph ...

In response to the U.S. Census Bureau’s release of new data on poverty and incomes in 2024, Rebecca Riddell, Oxfam America’s Economic Justice Senior Policy Lead, said: “Today’s Census data affirms the ...

Wealth and income inequality have recently gone down in the U.S. and other parts of the West, and the decline has been going on for the better part of the last decade. Yet it is not clear, to me at ...

The Planning Commission has recently released the report on Poverty and Inequality Estimates for 2024-25. The report clearly indicates that both inequality and poverty have increased during the last ...