Most of the US states have extreme inequality in the incomes of the rich and the poor and all 50 states of the country have higher income inequality than most of the developed nations. full story ![]()
Country leaders say higher wages, better life for workers a top priority; now admitting that economic boom left workers behind
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(Reuters) - The United Nations' top human rights official urged Angola's government on Wednesday to reduce the huge disparities between rich and poor that have developed in the oil-rich country despite considerable progress since the end of a 27-year civil war in 2002.
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Top schools face being reprimanded by Ofsted for failing to narrow the gap between rich and poor pupils under new plans designed to tackle a culture of "low expectations".
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A new study looks at why the divide between rich and poor nations remains so large in an age when technologies spread so much more quickly.
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Increasing divide between the rich and the poor and lack of skill training among the poor youth remain the biggest challenges before the government, Union Minister for Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Ajay Maken said Monday.
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The divide and conquer tactics of the security forces in Jharkhand, up against Maoists and their splinter groups, seems to have paid rich dividends.
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The gulf between China’s booming cities and its poor countryside has become a major source of social unrest.
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A professor of bats (I called him Bat Man) from the Universidade Estadual de Londrina in Parana, Brazil once told me: "If you are poor, it is better to be poor in America than in Brazil. But if you are going to be rich, it is better to be rich in Brazil."
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