When Jagtar Singh Kang immigrated with his family to the U.S. from the Indian region of Punjab in 1997, he was paid $8.50 an hour at his first job: working on an assembly line making catheters. It was ...

There’s a related and similarly unjust fact of our present times: Your income and credit determine how easy (or difficult) it is to climb out of debt. Just look at research published in April from two ...

bread-and-butter economic issues of income, wealth, and mobility, progress in ending racial inequality is stalling — or even reversing. The study brings into focus the simple math of why ...

As civil strife grows around the world, clashes are on the rise in the workplace too. Incivility on the job is getting worse, ...

Between-group income inequality (for example, differences in income between the five racial/ethnic groups) made up only about 6 percent of total inequality, whereas within-group inequality made ...

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) was adopted in 1979 by the United ...

Income inequality in the U.S. is particularly high ... The stirring phrase “all men are created equal,” Richardson writes, relied on racial, gender, and class inequality.

In 1980, the ratio was about 9.1. Researchers can also use the 90/10 ratio to look at income inequality among different racial and ethnic groups. The college-wage premium is another statistic ...

Driving much of Atlanta’s income inequality, experts say, is the city’s entrenched racial disparities which took root generations ago. Even as the city continues to prosper, many Black ...

Gun violence disproportionately affects communities of color, reinforcing racial disparities within the criminal justice system. This issue is closely ...

New study reveals racial disparities in education funding and access in Virginia and Maryland. Trump's policies worsened the ...

Rio de Janeiro’s favela of Rocinha sees makeshift dwellings spiral down the mountain, all but crashing into the turquoise ...