Wealth gap 'widest in 40 years'
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The gap between UK rich and poor is as wide as it has been for 40 years, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation says.
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The head of the Asian Development Bank warns of a widening poverty gap in Asia's fast growing economies.
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NEW YORK - A billion dollars just doesn't go as far as it used to.
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The politically sensitive gap in incomes between China's booming cities and the poor countryside is widening
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The typical double-income family in   the United States is worse off financially than ever, a study   released on Thursday said, warning that few Americans have   saved enough to brace for financial setbacks.
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Comment is free: Will Hutton: At a gathering of my wife's family last weekend I was sharply reminded of the generation gap when it comes to property.
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Home buyers in England face the biggest affordability gaps in South West and London, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation says.
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The gap in life expectancies between rich and poor persists, with professionals enjoying longer lives than the lower-skilled.
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More than half of UK adults do not have a will and risk loved ones missing out on an inheritance,
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The number of foreigners coming to work in the UK has doubled in four years, suggest National Insurance figures.
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Britain faces a huge pensions crisis which must be tackled immediately to avoid future generations of the elderly seeing their incomes slashed by around 30 percent compared with those nowadays, an official report warned.
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Affluent Americans worry about losing   their retirement savings to rising inflation and high health   care costs but the painful memories of the bear market of   2000-2003 lead many to invest more conservatively, according to   a study released on Tuesday.
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Hundreds of thousands of people are wrongly told they have a gap in their tax records that could affect their pension.
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LISBON, Jan 8  (IPS) - The gap between rich and poor is still widening in  Portugal, the country with the greatest social disparity in the  European Union. Despite having a socialist government in office  for nearly three years, there has been no reversal of this trend.
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WASHINGTON - Over two decades, the income gap has steadily increased between the richest Americans, who own homes and stocks and got big tax breaks, and those at the middle and bottom of the pay scale, whose paychecks buy less.    The growing disparity is even more pronounced in this recovering economy...
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The richest 2% of adults in the world own more than half of all household wealth, a new study by the UN finds.
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Working-class people in Britain age far faster than their middle-class counterparts, researchers at a London hospital have said.