No-one would ask low earners to pay the same as high earners.
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Supertaxes on very high earners needn’t be a problem.
When it comes to wealth, black families still lag far behind in the U.S.
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Thanks to a long history of exclusionary government programs, the typical black family now has only 10 cents for every dollar held by the typical white family.
On the right track?
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Research suggests the government’s dismantling of democracy could cost the country dear.
South Africa has one of the worst rates of youth unemployment in the world.
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Guaranteeing unemployed South Africans a job at the minimum wage would have a range of positive outcomes for the economy.
Children who have darker skin wait longer on average to leave foster care.
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In the US, black children wait longer to be adopted and cost less to adopt than white children.
Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland National Park, UK.
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Approximately 50% of the UK’s poorest people live over 15 miles from a national park and most people require transport to get to them.
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Inequality is one of the major issues of the modern age – but understanding where it happens is harder than you think.
López Obrader wants to cut salaries for all government workers in Mexico, including himself.
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Mexico’s new president has reduced his own salary and demanded that all federal workers
– including lawmakers and judges – take a massive pay cut, too. That may be illegal.
This narrow street, lined with parked cars but devoid of people, is both unwelcoming and unsafe for cyclists.
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Minorities are driving the bicycling boom, but bike infrastructure investments often neglect their needs. A new study explores what riders in low-income and minority neighborhoods want.
Former Nigerian finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is eminently qualified to lead the World Bank.
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The World Bank needs to change as part of rethinking the current world order, and giving rising powers and developing countries a meaningful voice.
Soweto in South Africa. Apartheid’s spacial planning still affects people’s lives.
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The high costs of finding work make it difficult for young South Africans to get jobs.
Since the Great Recession, the employment rate has gone up — but some rural groups lag behind.
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There’s a notable disparity between the rate of employment for people with and without disabilities, especially in certain pockets of the US.
African National Congress supporters during the recent ANC Election manifesto launch in Durban.
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A great deal of analysis on South Africa and the ruling ANC seems to be based on wishful thinking, not concrete reality.
Rally in support of raising the minimum wage in University City, Mo.
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As inequality in the US increases, the federal government is failing to address it. Can states pick up the slack?
C-sections can have long-term complications for moms and babies.
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A Lancet series shows that C-sections are performed for non-medical reasons in private health while poor women who need the surgery don’t have access.
Red Rosa.
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Though best remembered for her role in the doomed German Revolution, Rosa Luxemburg’s theories on how capitalism exploits people and nature need hearing today.
A West Papuan activist holds a placard during a rally at a main street in Jakarta, Indonesia, in last December.
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A researcher on social economic issues in Papua calls for more research on Papua that can contribute to find solutions for complex problems in Indonesia’s easternmost region.
A new study compares the press photos of NBA players.
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A new study shows that facial recognition software assumes that black faces are angrier than white faces, even when they’re smiling.
A family from the Central American migrant caravan at the U.S.-Mexico border in Tijuana.
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Donald Trump portrays migrants as a foreign problem ‘dumped’ on America’s doorstep. That view ignores the global forces that bind nations together, including trade, climate change and colonization.
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A fairer and more efficient way of taxing wealth can benefit society as a whole.