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It’s the Inequality, Stupid Eleven charts that explain what’s wrong with America.
Since its development 100 years ago, quantum mechanics has revolutionized our understanding of nature, revealing a bizarre ...
Math fans can now spin, zoom, and explore complex equations in full 3D right on their iPad with iPadOS 26. Here's what it looks like.
A visit to Cuba reveals stasis, inequality and desperation by Mark I. Pinsky, opinion contributor - 04/27/25 12:00 PM ET ...
Rising contractual employment in sanitation work draws upon and reproduces historical inequalities of caste and class in urban India.
This article examines the relationship between economic growth and income inequality in India. Empirical findings seriously challenge some popular prevailing notions that higher inequality has been an ...
Institutions help explain uneven development between countries.Why are some countries rich and others poor? It’s among the most important questions in economics—in all the social sciences—and one at ...
The expansion of wealth inequality is a challenge to the American Dream: the notion that, with hard work, opportunity and prosperity are accessible to all. Wealth enables choice and stability.
Students graph linear equations in Zach Loy’s ninth-grade algebra class at Braham Area High School in Minnesota. Credit: Patience Zalanga for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report is a national ...
Another signifier of high income inequality is the increase in tall buildings in Taiwan. Several thinkers, Alex Marshall and Jason Barr among them, have argued that building height and income ...