The Way We Live Now: The Inequality Conundrum
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How can you promote equality without killing off the genie of American prosperity?
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Viewpoint: A big change is taking place in America, says Jim Wallis: the advent of a more dynamic and progressive faith that is addressing social injustice
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Let the past put current conditions in perspective.
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Description: The US Census Bureau releases new data that shows the number of Americans living in poverty rose last year by 1.3 million people.
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Modern families worldwide are striving for equilibrium in lives overloaded with technology, according to a study released by Internet search titan Yahoo and OMD media firm.
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All US states and Washington, DC have narrowed the gap between wages earned by men and women, but no state has eliminated it, according to a study released on Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON -- The part of the American dream that says a man's children will be better off than he was, has become a dream, not reality, according to an analysis of Census data released yesterday.
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Recently there has been a roiling debate about how to describe living standards in this country.
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Pundits often opine that America's stature is declining on the global stage. It turns out that Americans -- literally -- are not standing as tall, compared  with the rest of the world, as they used to.
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Income inequality has one shared benefit: it fills federal coffers with tax money
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The best of times, or the worst of times. The US economy is the strongest in years, or is mired in the deepest employment crisis in decades.
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Why the rich really do get richer -- and how to become one of them.
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I was looking at what my friend Stephen Lewis wrote in HakPakSak a few days ago &#151; specifically newspapersâ roles as public trusts and cornerstones of our informational infrastructure &#151; i.e. sources of solid information and independent commentary essential to informed citizenry, democratic government, effective public policy, and well-functioning economies. What this brought up for me is the notion that human beings are themselves infrastructural;  especially when they are constuctive contributors to the structure we call civilization.
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There are always trade-offs to every place people choose to live. If you live in New York, it&#39;s too expensive. If you live in Montana, it&#39;s too remote. If you live in Florida, you&#39;re going to be slammed with hurricanes all the time.
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Nutrition, obsession, global business:  an exploration of our second most basic desire.
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BRUSSELS, Dec. 13 (IPS) - By 2030, 1.2 billion people in developing countries  will belong to a global middle class, up from 400 million today.  The increase in wealth will make income inequality and  environmental pressures more acute, predicts the World Bank in a  report on 'Managing the Next Wave of Globalisation'.
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Recent experiments show how hard it can be to balance academic success and socioeconomic and racial diversity.