While democracy promises people equality and prosperity, the tragedy is that capitalism, though it has created wealth over ...

[2] The reasons are complex and vast, but public policy has clearly contributed. State and local tax policies play an important role in addressing or perpetuating inequality. Most state tax systems ...

Most inequality analysis focuses on income (the wages earned from a job or from capital gains) rather than wealth (the sum of one’s assets minus debts). Income inequality, while stark, pales in ...

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Department of Chemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721; Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine and Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, ...

How do inequality and health relate? Increasing evidence from scientists the world over indicates that many health outcomes — everything from life expectancy to infant mortality and obesity — can be ...

Paul Mescal is not courting the immediate comparisons that have been made between his new film with Josh O’Connor, and Brokeback Mountain. The Oscar nominee and his co-star play gay lovers in ...

Responding to Metro's question about the comparison and how he felt about it, the actor began: 'I personally don't see the parallel at all between Brokeback Mountain, other than the fact that we ...

In 2023, Davidson County led all Tennessee counties in total property tax per capita at $ ... Middle Tennessee counties surrounding Nashville compare, along with a look at Tennessee's other ...

Biocompatibility was assessed by culturing human hepatoma (HepG2) cells on treated surfaces. Comparison of the adsorption properties and biocompatibility of devices in different plastics revealed that ...

The objective of the present study was to estimate and compare social inequality in terms of three indicators, i.e., low birth weight (LBW), preterm birth (PTB) and small for gestational age (SGA) ...