The last decade of officially celebrated growth left behind a vast underclass. The world’s richest 500 people, hardly enough to fill a movie theater, command more wealth than the bottom 416 million.

America is an obscenely rich nation. We have supermarkets with 50 different brands of potato chips and mega-mansions sprouting like buffalo grass across the prairie and TVs the size of barns. With all ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Joe Biden speaks at the Wisconsin Black Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday December 20, 2023 in Milwaukee, Wis. A day ...

In February, the Center on Poverty and Social Policy, at Columbia University, released a staggering new report on child poverty in the United States. The study found that the child-poverty rate had ...

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The Covid-19 crisis has touched almost every aspect of life. From adapting to working from home, fearing for job security, not being able to see loved ones and negotiating getting groceries safely, a ...

Argentina’s government likes statistics. Officials from Argentina President Mauricio Macri’s administration never miss an opportunity to tout the government’s achievements by using numbers to ...