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.

The gap between rich and poor has reached historic highs. According to the World Inequality Report 2026, released in recent ...

Gender inequality goes beyond visible and measurable gaps. Even subtle shifts in women’s job tasks after having children can ...

Is your happiness a choice, as so many positive psychologists, coaches, classes, books, memes, and coffee mugs say? Are your feelings of joy, contentment, and purpose really under your control? Is ...

Washington Post journalists speak with top experts about the medical toll of racial inequality and ways to address disparities in health care. Associate editor Jonathan Capehart begins with assistant ...

A narrow definition such as income inequality does not capture the vast disparities in power that define our society.

Social scientists have urged policy-makers and governments to rethink how income inequality is measured. In a new study published in Nature Human Behaviour, researchers from the University of Exeter ...

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People from privileged groups may misperceive equality-boosting policies as harmful to them, even if they would actually benefit. Previous studies have found that advantaged people often don’t support ...

Discover how the Robin Hood Effect redistributes wealth, its economic impacts, and examples of policies and activities that ...