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The gap between Canada’s richest and poorest grew last year as financial markets gained, interest…

Gap between richest and poorest Canadians kept widening in 2025, StatsCan says | CBC NewsThe gap between Canada’s richest and poorest grew last year as financial markets gained, in...

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Gap between richest and poorest Canadians kept widening in 2025, StatsCan says | CBC News

Statistics Canada reports wealth and income gaps grew in 2025

Statistics Canada says the income and wealth gaps between Canada’s wealthiest and highest earners and those at the bottom increased throughout last year. The agency says the income...

Income and wealth gaps widen as market gains favour top households

Lower-income Canadians squeezed as savings fall and earnings lag behind spending.

From childhood to university, economic inequality shapes life chances worldwide

Economic inequality is leaving a deep mark on children’s health, learning and future opportunities – with effects felt well beyond the classroom, the UN Children’s Fund UNICEF and...

Income inequality Ohio: Study predicts state policies will worsen disparities

The state's new flat tax structure raises Ohio's inequality measure while delivering the biggest savings to top earners, according to analysis from Scioto Analysis.

Equalization formula ‘detached from reality’ as payouts rise despite shrinking gaps

Think tank says federal transfers growing regardless of need, calls for urgent reform

Gas price surge hits lower-income Americans the hardest, research shows

This trend has exacerbated existing economic disparities across the nation

StatCan reveals how markets shaped the wealth gap in 2025

Signs of a Canadian K-shaped economy in 2025 data

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We Can’t Agree on Inequality—Here’s Why

Centuries of argument have left a stubborn question unresolved: how much economic inequality is acceptable? Unlike inequalities rooted in race, gender, or disability—which typicall...

Jobs are up, but so is the gap: Decoding India’s wage reality

While India's workforce participation has increased, a deeper look reveals significant disparities. More people are working, but many are in self-employment or informal roles with...

Gap between rich and poor nations is growing even wider, UN report says

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The gap between rich and poor nations is growing even wider as actions agreed to by many countries last year, including overhauling the major global financial...

Canadian Wealth Inequality Soars As Rich Buy Stocks, Poor Take Out Mortgages

Canadian household wealth grew last year, but so did inequality. Statistics Canada (StatCan) data shows the average household net worth rose in Q4 2025. However, the rich had a dif...

CEOs got an 11% pay raise in 2025. Workers got 0.5%

A new ITUC-Oxfam report covering 1,500 companies found CEO pay is outpacing worker wages by a factor of 20—and the gap is only getting wider.

Lower-income Americans hit hardest by gas price spike, widening inequalities

Lower-income Americans sharply reduced their gas consumption in the month following the Iran war, yet spiking prices still forced them to spend more at the pump, worsening the econ...

Gap between rich and poor nations is growing even wider, UN report says

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The gap between rich and poor nations is growing even wider as actions agreed to by many countries last year, including...

Tag der Arbeit: Abstand zwischen hohen und niedrigen Einkommen wächst laut Oxfam

Die Gehälter von Spitzenmanagern steigen deutlich stärker als die Kaufkraft von Beschäftigten, kritisiert Oxfam. Der Irankrieg drohe die Ungleichheit zu verschärfen.

Global wealth gap grows as aid to world’s poorest sees record drop

The gap between rich and poor nations is growing even wider as actions agreed to by many countries last year, including overhauling the major global financial institutions, remain...

Why Does Wealth Inequality Matter?

An MIT Stone Center event examined the origins, mechanisms, and political consequences of high inequality. The post Why Does Wealth Inequality Matter? appeared first on The Good Me...

Are we undermeasuring inflation for lower earners?

We document a new source of fluctuations in inflation inequality. When the cost of upstream inputs rises, varieties within a product category tend to have similar absolute price in...

Ontario’s prosperity gap widens as US neighbours pull further ahead, report reveals

New report finds Ontario near bottom in regional GDP per capita as growth lags peers

Gap between rich and poor nations is growing even wider, UN report says

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The gap between rich and poor nations is growing even wider as actions agreed to by many countries last year, including overhauling the major global financial...

From childhood to university, economic inequality shapes life chances worldwide

Economic inequality is leaving a deep mark on children’s health, learning and future opportunities – with effects felt well beyond the classroom, the UN Children’s Fund UNICEF and...