A whopping 80% of American adults believe the financial system favors those with “powerful interests,” while 20% currently own cryptocurrency, a new survey has revealed. Commissioned by crypto exchang...
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Racism And Discrimination Are A Key Public Health Threat—But Overlooked And Dismissed Using Poor Science, Researchers Warn
Topline Racism, xenophobia and discrimination have a profound impact on health but are largely overlooked and erroneously dismissed with low-quality science, according to a series of papers published ...
The Impact Of Oprah’s Documentary On Racial Health Inequality
LONDON, ENGLAND – FEBRUARY 16: (EDITORS NOTE: Image has been converted to black and white.) Oprah … [+] Winfrey attends the EE British Academy Film Awards 2014 at The Royal Opera House on ...
What I Bet You Don’t Know About Poverty, Inequality And The Role Of Government
Government programs have reduced the actual U.S. poverty rate to 2.5 percent. getty Here are five surprising facts: * The U.S. welfare state has almost eliminated poverty in this country. * Over the l...
COVID stimulus widened already-crippling inequality
The money-printing bonanza of recent years has been well covered. What doesn’t get enough coverage is the mass inequality that it leads to. Let’s recap. There has been more money printed in the last c...
Did you buy a house before 2022? If the answer is ‘no,’ you will likely be on the wrong end of financial inequality over the next decade — here’s why
Did you buy a house before 2022? If the answer is ‘no,’ you will likely be on the wrong end of financial inequality over the next decade — here’s why If you bought a house before 202...
Taxes, Inequality And Unemployment Will Weigh On China After Party Congress
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, speaks to China President Xi Jinping during the Shanghai … [+] Cooperation Organization summit last Friday. (Sergei Bobylev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo v...
How cryptocurrency could help tackle global income inequality
Over the past few decades, the inequality of wealth distribution globally has become all the starker. For example, as of 2022, the top 10% of Americans hold nearly 70% of the wealth in the United Stat...
The Future Is Brighter For Workers But Dangerous For Bond Investors
TOKYO, JAPAN – MARCH 17: A general view of the humanoid robot HONDA ASIMO during the press preview … [+] for ‘You And Robots – What Is It To Be Human?’ at National Museum...
Federal Housing Policies Make It Easier To Get A Loan But Not Be A Homeowner
Investment risk and uncertainty in the real estate housing market getty Last week I testified at the House Financial Services Committee hearing Boom and Bust: Inequality, Homeownership, and the Long-T...
Black And Hispanic Households Hit Harder By Inflation—On Top Of Economic Inequality Caused By The Pandemic
Topline Black and Hispanic Americans are affected more by record inflation than other groups, according to research published Thursday by the New York Federal Reserve, in one of the first studies of h...
Bitcoin could be a panacea for income inequality, says Forbes
? Want to work with us? CryptoSlate is hiring for a handful of positions! Bitcoin (BTC) has the potential to solve the world’s income inequality problem as it can behave as a commodity and an asset at...
How cryptocurrency Could tackle gender inequality in finance
Cryptocurrency has a huge gender problem. Over 75% of investors are men while 95% of currency founders are men. Despite this, as an up-and-coming financial tool, cryptocurrency has the potential to up...
In The Caribbean, Severe Food Insecurity Has Increased By 72% In The Past Two Years
A series of surveys administered by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) in partnership with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) have revealed that, in the English-speaking Caribbean, the estim...
Cryptocurrency: An Antidote to Corruption and Inequality?
A crypto trader calls cryptocurrency to be an antidote to corruption and inequality. Bitcoin has the potential to create opportunities people never had before, she states. But will cryptocurrency ever...
New Law Could Reduce Pay Inequity On Broadway
Former Councilwoman Helen Rosenthal speaking during an event at Riverside Park on July 14, 2021 … [+] (Photo by Arturo Holmes/Getty Images for Riverside Park Conservancy) Getty Images for Rivers...
Oxfam on Covid inequality, tax rich to pay for vaccines, protect climate
A pedestrian wearing a face mask delivers food to a homeless person sleeping in the entrance of a shop, closed due to coronavirus restrictions, in central London on December 23, 2020. Tolga Akmen | AF...
Russian protest group Pussy Riot seeks to tackle gender inequality in the NFT space
Russian punk rock collective Pussy Riot is planning to launch a DAO for LBTQ+ and women artists. As the group’s co-founder Nadya Tolokonnikova told Cointelegraph, the DAO will be working on reducing t...
A New Year’s Resolution For Capitalism
If Mr. Market came to me for advice on a New Year’s resolution, here’s what I’d suggest: “Capitalism needs to self-regulate its inequities so as not to fall out of favor with the population it so grea...