#Economic inequality

Articles (10)

• 🇺🇸 Gender pay gap widens to 81 cents — 28/03/2026 [USA]

  For the second year in a row, the gender pay gap widened.

  Related: #Gender disparity, #Wage gap, #Social policy
• 🇺🇸 A Lagos rave rewrites the rules of nightlife, drawing young Nigerians priced out of club culture — 06/03/2026 [USA]

  Nightlife in Nigeria's economic capital Lagos can be very expensive with its table culture where revellers are divided into a multitier system and compelled to buy very expensive drinks

  Related: #Cultural shift, #Youth culture
• 🇺🇸 How the 'K-shaped' economy is showing up at two big U.S. gyms — 28/02/2026 [USA]

  The outlooks of Life Time and Planet Fitness show the divergence in spending between higher- and lower-income consumers.

  Related: #K-shaped economy, #Consumer spending, #Fitness industry, #Growth vs. Price Sensitivity
• 🇺🇸 There are two Americas. Falling mortgage rates matter only to the wealthy one — 28/02/2026 [USA]

  Protecting democracy requires making sure people feel that democracy is working for them.

  Related: #Democracy and material well-being, #Political messaging
• 🇺🇸 WATCH: Trump announces public retirement plan with federal match up to $1,000 at State of the Union — 25/02/2026 [USA]

  Trump's address comes after 13 months of break-neck deregulation, a record number of executive actions, mass layoffs, aggressive immigration tactics and more.

  Related: #Retirement policy, #Political challenges
• 🇬🇧 If AI makes human labor obsolete, who decides who gets to eat? — 23/02/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Amid talk of artificial intelligence taking our jobs, the big unasked question is: how will we be fed?</p><p>How will we be fed? That’s the biggest question not seriously being addressed amid all t...

  Related: #Democratic governance, #Technological disruption, #Power redistribution
• 🇺🇸 William Hague: Britons in their 60s are the ‘luckiest generation’ in history — 23/02/2026 [USA]

  Oxford university chancellor calls for ‘national conversation’ around young people facing high student debt and living costs

  Related: #Intergenerational equity, #Education policy
• 🇺🇸 The difficult choices faced by residents in one of America's poorest places — 23/02/2026 [USA]

  McDowell County, West Virginia barely survived coal's collapse and the opioid crisis. Now cuts to food stamps and Medicaid threaten to push its poorest residents to the edge.

  Related: #Rural poverty, #Government failure, #Community resilience
• 🇬🇧 Bernie Sanders rails against billionaire ‘greed’ amid California tax battle — 19/02/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>In a fiery speech in Los Angeles, the Vermont senator criticizes ‘grotesque’ levels of economic inequality</p><p>Billionaires are “treading on very, very thin ice,” Bernie Sanders warned on Wednesd...

  Related: #Tax policy, #Billionaire wealth, #Political activism, #California politics
• 🇺🇸 The &apos;boomcession&apos;: Why Americans feel left behind by a growing economy — 18/02/2026 [USA]

  A combination of the words "boom" and "recession" can help explain why Americans feel so sour about a growing economy.

  Related: #Perception of growth vs. individual financial reality, #Labor market disparities, #Living‑expense pressures, #Social impact of economic expansion