Against a backdrop of sharply rising inequality, the Tokyo Round of the GATT resulted in a 1.6 percentage point reduction in average US tariffs – larger than CUSFTA, NAFTA, and the liberalization ...

The data show a substantial decline in global inequality over the past three decades as rising prosperity allowed poor ...

Several state leaders, including Pennsylvania, have declared racism "a public health crisis." Many healthcare workers have said this for years and they say it's time those inequalities be addressed.

Question of the Week posts review important questions and controversies in global development by providing background information and links to a full spectrum of analysis and opinion. Following a ...

A new study published in Social Psychological and Personality Science has found that rising income inequality is associated with an increase in the number of hours people work. This relationship ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Trump administration has rescinded more than $1 billion in medical research funding, with one major target being research ...

The task-based approach has become the dominant framework for studying the labor-market effects of artificial intelligence (AI), typically emphasizing the replacement of human workers by machines.

Plus: the US has accused Russia of meddling ahead of the Presidential election This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the ...

We can never let it seem normal, or appropriate, when governments ban teaching topics that are controversial, in literature or science. Most of us old enough remember being appalled at the censorship ...