Stigmabase | North America

Living in an age of inequality : perspectives from the business world - While many countries have been experiencing rising inequality , others – such as those in Latin America and parts of Africa and Asia – have not, ...

New York's poorest area has 44% living in poverty  - Updating and expanding the statistics, officials hope, will highlight extreme inequality in America's largest city and help improve quality of life for the ...

While the White, Wealthy Few Are Thriving, the Rest of America Is Living In a Third ... - Much these days is said of income inequality in the U.S. , of the gaping, ever-expanding chasm that separates the haves from the have nots, the rich ...

Can we now stop worrying about life expectancy in America? ... struggling working families have suffered from America's growing economic inequality. View article...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released some welcome news late last month: Americans are living a tiny bit longer. In 2018, the ... View article...

Nearly seven in 10 (69%) schools have reported seeing a surge in inequality amongst pupils due to the cost of living crisis, a survey shows. View article...

Inequality and the Causes of Poverty in North America - In North America , an estimated 98 million people live in poverty. What led to so many people living below the poverty line? Possible causes of poverty in North America range from low wages, to worker inequality , industry diversification and a widening gap between the rich and the poor.

Shared prosperity: A goal to reduce inequality  - In essence, this is a goal to reduce global inequality . ... as well as in Asia and Latin America , living in extreme poverty, this state of affairs is a stain on ...

Census: In 2013, inequality continued skyward, earnings stayed flat  - Russ Bowers of Guerneville, California is among 45.3 million Americans ... Bureau confirms that we are living in a time of historic income inequality .

Democrats will meet in a city of great economic inequality  - Bernie Sanders decried during his campaign against Clinton, with 26 percent of residents living in poverty, the highest rate of any big city in the U.S. .

In cowboy country, inequality is not a bug. It's a uniquely American strategy. - My family lives in a university-owned apartment complex whose population consists mainly of people from abroad, living in the United States for a graduate program or a postdoc. Those of us who are from this country, therefore, find ourselves conscripted into the service of having to explain the mysteries ...

Less than 1pc of women live in countries that have high women's empowerment as well as a small gender gap, as per UN Women. View article...

Amazon Warehouse Employees Are The Most Important Workers in America - We are living in an age of economic inequality not seen in a century. For nearly 40 years, the incomes of most people have been almost flat, while the ...

The right's Piketty nightmare: Coming of age in the era of Post-Exceptionalism  - We are living in the Age of Post-Exceptional America . An unavoidable fact of life in modern America , our growing inequality of income and wealth has ...

But Guatemalans living in the U.S. have little faith that whoever wins will ... Guatemala has the highest inequality in terms of distribution of wealth in ... View article...

Senator Bernie Sanders' Health Policy Advisors on Causes and Solutions to Healthcare Inequality ... - The number of US households living in extreme poverty — defined as incomes <$2 per person per day — has more than doubled over the past decades to more than 1.6 million. 4 Health inequality has increased concurrently with economic inequality . The prevalence of most chronic illnesses, such as ...

6 alarming facts about poverty in America that you might not realize are true - Everyone knows that poverty exists, but by the very nature of economic inequality in America , if you're not living in poverty or close to it, it's not ...

Poverty News Blog: Invest in adolescents' education and training ... : "With the majority (88 percent) of the world's 1.2 billion adolescents living in developing countries, investing in their education and training could break entrenched cycles of poverty and inequality, says the UN Children's Fund ...

I am a black American intellectual living in an age of persistent racial inequality in my country. As a black man, I feel compelled to represent ... View article...

Shared prosperity: A goal to reduce inequality  - With so many people in sub-Saharan Africa, as well as in Asia and Latin America , living in extreme poverty , this state of affairs is a stain on our ...