WASHINGTON -- Tight labor markets shrink income inequality by causing employers to bid up the price of scarce labor, so policymakers fretting about income inequality could give an epidemic disease a ...

We are standing on the cusp of a new technological revolution. AI is increasingly permeating every aspect of our lives, with intelligent machines transforming the way we live and work. The potential ...

Re: “An excise tax on income is detrimental to Washington’s future” [Jan. 20, Opinion]: According to the Institute On Taxation and Economic Policy (6th Edition, 2018), the state of Washington has the ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (KLFY) — LSU’s president and board chair have pledged “concrete steps” the university can take to make the university a more inclusive place for minorities in the wake of this ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — If Black, Hispanic and ...

Last year was painful for many. Along with those who lost loved ones to COVID-19, perhaps no one felt that pain more than the essential worker, the low-income single parent, the isolated, the ...

Paul Constant is a writer at Civic Ventures and the cohost of the "Pitchfork Economics" podcast. He spoke with professor Oded Galor, who wrote a book about the history of wealth inequality. Galor said ...

Over the past few years, there has been an increasing awareness of gender inequality in the tech industry. Many high-profile companies have released figures on the number of men versus women that they ...

A new policy paper "goes further than ever before" to support people living with rare diseases in England, according to the Government. Patients with conditions such as spinal muscular atrophy, ...