Browsing: inequality

I enjoyed John Lanchester’s article on the generation gap (Did baby boomers eat all the pies? John Lanchester on the truth about the generation gap, 8…

RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 31 December 2025 A meta-analysis of 168 studies covering more than 11 million people found no reliable link between economic inequality and well-being or…

Your report about the deprivation divide in UK communities brings into sharp focus the granularity of inequalities in the country (‘Posh-poor divide’: the rise in areas…

Illustration: Glenn Harvey/The GuardianAlmost every couple that I know in their 20s, 30s or even 40s has had the same argument with their parents before getting…

The Chinese did rather well in the age of globalization. In 1990, 943 million people there lived on less than $3 a day measured in 2021…

The Means of Prediction: How AI Really Works (and Who Benefits) Maximilian Kasy Univ. Chicago Press (2025)Have you felt dizzy from the constant flood of articles…

To many Americans, the economy of the past five years has been rough. Prices have soared yet pay remains stagnant. High mortgage rates have made buying…

Scientists have linked the impact of living in an unequal society to structural changes in the brains of children – regardless of individual wealth – for…

When states overhauled their school funding models to promote equity, they helped narrow the financial gap between high- and low-income districts, but those efforts did not…

Could I pass on the apologies of my five baby-boomer siblings to Phillip Inman (Can a nation in crisis rely on the baby boomer generation to…