The World Economic Forum was once about spreading wealth. But in the past three years, the wealth of the world’s top five billionaires has more than doubled while 60% of humanity has grown poorer.
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Democratic lawmakers have offered a number of ways to reverse decades of widening economic inequality. A tax expert gives them a closer look.
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Keating told The Conversation that taxation revenue will need to rise by another 3 percentage points of GDP in the next three decades.
Scholars have started to investigate what it really means to be middle class in Africa.
The basic idea of trickle-down economics is that giving economic help to companies or people at the top of society should generate benefits for those in layers further down.
A provocative new documentary, ‘Starving the Beast,’ blames the condition of higher ed on right-wing policies. A scholar argues that the film ignores a long history that has led to current crisis.
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