The study, titled "Excess Revenue, Unequal Opportunity," found that local property tax revenue in dozens of districts has driven per-student funding to $8,000 to $10,000 above that of nearby ...

Personal finance expert Dave Ramsey recently sparked discussion by stating, “We’re not all equal. It doesn’t work that way,” ...

The assessments were the first since the pandemic for eighth graders in science and 12th graders in reading and math. They reflect a downward drift across grade levels and subject areas in previous ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa has commissioned a report on global wealth inequality in time to present at the G20 summit in November. The G20 Presidency launched the new “Extraordinary Committee of ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday launched a G20 experts task force to examine global wealth inequality and its impact on growth, poverty and multilateralism, the first initiative of its kind for ...

Mr. Goodell has been reporting on climate impacts for 20 years. His most recent book is “The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet.” Aug. 20, 2025 Summer is not what it used to ...

Alain Sherter is a senior managing editor with CBS News. He covers business, economics, money and workplace issues for CBS MoneyWatch. Six Nobel laureate economists said a massive budget bill passed ...

Inequality is worse than we think in Australia, and it is exacerbated by our tax-free treatment of housing. In a new paper, Professors Peter Siminski and Roger Wilkins argue standard measures of ...

Ms. Harrington is a journalist based in Britain. When I was a kid in the 1980s, my parents sent me to a Waldorf school in England. At the time, the school discouraged parents from allowing their kids ...

Alexander Clapp’s Waste Wars, a world-spanning inquiry into the politics of garbage, makes a case that everything that is wrong with capitalism is embodied in our trash. A man carries electronic waste ...

“Financing is the engine of development. And right now, this engine is sputtering,” U.N. Secretary General António Guterres said at a global poverty conference in Seville. You’re reading an excerpt ...

After more than two years of build-up and buzz, headlines are still promising that AI is introducing societal changes of revolutionary proportions. Meanwhile, there’s persistent unease about the ...