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From ALICEs to HENRYs, here's what people across the tax brackets discuss in therapy
Therapists shared what their clients talk about with Business Insider. While ALICEs struggle with t…
Serafina Kenny
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11.9 lakh excess deaths in 2020 during the pandemic, 8 times more than official estimates, notes a recent study
Looking at social groups, the researchers found that high caste Hindu groups experienced a life exp…
PTI
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As India’s income inequality worsens beyond British-era levels, majority want to tax the rich, study reveals
A study by the World Inequality Lab has shown that Indian billionaires already own a disproportiona…
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Universal basic income: Should the government give ‘unconditional money’ or ‘freebies’ to the poor?
This is where results of the experiment conducted by Sam Altman’s OpenResearch could help shed some…
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Social Security won't save you
Baby boomers who struggled to save for retirement say that relying on Social Security doesn't cut i…
Juliana Kaplan,Noah Sheidlowe…
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Investing in women, gender-responsive budgeting key to green transition success, says global accountancy body
In the journey towards a greener and more sustainable future, women are not just stakeholders, but …
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A 43-page IMF report on AI warns of 'profound concerns' about massive labor disruptions and inequality. We asked GPT-4 to summarize it.
GPT-4 concluded the report finds AI presents "significant risks" and recommended policymakers remai…
Dominick Reuter
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Social disadvantage is transplantable! Cancer patients’ recovery gets influenced by their cell donors’ socioeconomic status: Study
New research has found how one's position on the socioeconomic ladder can not only shape one’s phys…
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Risk of long COVID 46% higher for patients from socioeconomically deprived areas, study reveals
Workers with lower socioeconomic status have poorer health outcomes and higher premature mortality …
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Transition to net-zero should be inclusive to avoid accentuation of social inequality, says ITC CMD Puri
In his address at the Business-20 (B20) India inception meeting in Gandhinagar, Puri also called fo…
PTI
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One billionaire was minted every 30 hours during the pandemic. Now, a million people may fall into extreme poverty every 33 hours, Oxfam estimates.
In 2021, China minted 62 new billionaires, including Chris Xu, the founder of online fashion giant …
Katie Boon
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How a Twitter bot went viral by shaming companies on International Women's Day
The intention behind the bot is clear in its Twitter bio: "Employers, if you tweet about Internatio…
Lindsay Dodgson
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How a Dutch justice accelerator is helping startups tackle social issues worldwide, from legal aid in Kenya to rent in New York City
The Hague Institute for Innovation of Law spots holes in justice systems, calls for addressing them…
Shana Lebowitz,Drake Baer
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OPINION: Surge of tech-enabled solutions in ESG — unlocking the why, where, and what's next
The ‘2022 ESG Global Study’ by Oracle, which involved over 11,000 participants from 15 countries, s…
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One of the biggest things young workers are split over is their support of capitalism and socialism
In today's big story, we're looking at the data from a recent poll we conducted on Generation Z's t…
Dan DeFrancesco
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Digital inequality, debt, cost of living crises among top 5 risks for India in 2 years: WEF
These were the top five risks identified in an executive opinion survey on national risk per…
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Chile redrafted its constitution to help end the nation's wealth gap. Here's how the fragile process is going and what we can learn from it.
Chile confirms that "things can change, and sometimes very quickly," when those in power lose their…
Paul Constant
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Democratic socialist India Walton, a surprise Democratic nominee for Buffalo mayor, hasn't studied socialism since grade school, she tells us in the EIC interview
India Walton, a nurse who beat out the incumbent Byron Brown for the Democratic nomination for Buff…
Nicholas Carlson
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Cost of Inequity: The Student Loan Crisis
Cost of Inequity returns with this special edition that examines historical events and systemic fla…
Insider Inc.
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History gives us a clue as to how we can solve global wealth inequality
Massive wealth inequality is a fairly recent invention. Understanding our past can help us better d…