Poverty

The effects of of globalisation on income distributions in rich countries have been studied extensively. This column takes a different approach by looking at developments in global incomes from 1988 to 2008. Large real income gains have been made by people around the median of the global income distribution and by those in the global top 1%. However, there

A new study finds that roughly 26 million Americans remain "too poor to shop". The study, performed by America's Research Group, found that about...

One of the basic functions of a State is to impose taxation on individuals and companies. In this way the state achieves the redistribution...

Bernie Holds Community Conversation on Poverty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9rXlL5iJNk Sisters and Brothers In the United States today, the wealthiest country in the history of the world, 47 million Americans...