Take one jarring symmetry: the spending cuts to health care and food assistance programs in the bill will average about $120 ...

The top 1 percent in income among American men live 15 years longer than the poorest 1 percent; for women, the gap is 10 years. These rich Americans have gained three years of longevity just in ...

The poor majority should vote to tax the rich and divide the proceeds among themselves. But that’s not happening in the United States. In fact, inequality has been rising for decades.

The differences between rich and poor are much larger among conservative, Republican groups than among liberal, Democratic groups. At the very bottom of the graph above, ...

Many factors favor the rich getting richer while the poor stagnate. The wealthy benefit from economies of scale, as the best prices and lowest interest rates are more readily available to those ...

But not that many of those poor students entering college are leaving with degrees, while nearly every rich one is. Only 21% received bachelors by age 24, compared to 99% of their wealthier peers.

Countries with the widest gap between rich, poor. Ashley C. Allen. 24/7 Wall St. ... Israel was among the top spenders on educational institutions in 2010, spending 7.4% of GDP, ...

Among programs targeted are those for housing, higher education, welfare-to-work initiatives and safety nets for the poor. Hear NPR's Tavis Smiley, author Julianne Malveaux and Tim Kane of the ...

A Richie Rich comic sold for $108,000 last year — more will soon be auctioned off This ‘poor little rich boy’ is becoming a sensation among comic-book collectors Share ...

Cameroon ranks 25th among the countries with the widest gap between rich and poor. Cameroon has a Gini coefficient score of ...

There were an estimated 20 million cancer cases and 9.7 million cancer deaths in 2022, the World Health Organization’s cancer research agency said on Thursday, a growing burden that masks what ...

Yes, there will always be poor in the land, but there should be no poor among the house of Israel—that is, if the Israelites “fully obey” God’s commandments (Deut. 15:5), which included ...