Browsing: Inequality
South Korean banks offer baby bonuses, flexible schedules, and years-long sabbaticals while U.S. women leave the workforce in droves
Working women across the world continue to face wage inequality and a rollback in leadership representation—and the “motherhood penalty” makes…
Trump promises to send $2,000 tariff dividend checks ‘probably the middle of next year, a little bit later than that’
President Donald Trump promised on Monday that his administration will begin issuing $2,000 “tariff dividend” checks to Americans around the…
America’s wealthiest billionaires got $698 billion richer this year—and Trump’s tax policy could give them a new windfall
Now, a new report from Oxfam has revealed that the 10 richest U.S. billionaires added $698 billion to their net…
The gap between higher and lower-income households is widening as inequality progress since pandemic has ‘gone into reverse,’ BofA economist says
America’s consumer economy showed renewed signs of strength in July, but the gains are not being shared equally. According to…
A $100 billion mystery is unfolding on tariffs and inflation and economists are cracking the case
Since the first weeks of President Donald Trump’s second term, when the president signaled a wholesale reimagining of the international…
Tariffs are 10x higher than before Trump. Companies will have to absorb the pain because consumers are ‘tapped out,’ investment manager says
The impact of tariffs will depend on who bears their cost, says Jeff Klingelhofer, managing director at Aristotle Pacific—but it…
European Parliament VP discovered there was nowhere in the building to change a diaper—it took the length of her pregnancy to change that
The ascent to the top of the European Parliament is filled with cliff edges and challenges, especially as a woman.…
Trump’s tax hike on millionaires is back on the table—but experts say it won’t make a dent in the ultra-rich
As Republicans in Congress try to negotiate a fiscal policy bill, a decidedly un-Republican concept is back on the table:…
Amidst the current escalation of a global trade war, ecologist Jonathan Foley humorously noted on the social media platform Blue…
Cases of female breast cancer look set to to rise by 38% worldwide over the next 25 years, while deaths…












