Inequality

G20 taskforce calls for global panel to tackle 'inequality emergency'

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has called for the creation of an international panel to tackle inequality, warning that extreme wealth disparities disrupt democracy.

 South African President Cyril Ramaphosa briefs the media on South Africa's G20 presidency for 2025 at the parliament in Cape Town, South Africa, December 3, 2024.
  A woman walks past a poster showing Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

'Know this, Khamenei, this is your end': Iranians slam regime in footage from Tehran to Israel

 THE RESEARCH team from the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.

Knesset to examine Van Leer gender report of women's inequality on the rise

 ‘THE HAREDI leadership argues that it is forbidden to draft yeshiva students whose Torah is their profession and that they defend the State of Israel through their studies.’

Israel's cabinet extends mandatory IDF service amid haredi draft controversy, sparking criticism


Bringing poverty to heel by understanding its causes

Since most poverty on earth afflicts rural people, we should acknowledge that food growers’ associations must also be processors of their bounty.

AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVE members planning their local projects in Morocco’s Oujda Region.

Pessimism over economy was running high before coronavirus lockdown - Pew

Pessimism was highest globally over whether the gap between rich and poor could be reduced.

FILE PHOTO: People who lost their jobs wait in line to file for unemployment benefits, following an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at Arkansas Workforce Center in Fort Smith, Arkansas, U.S. April 6, 2020

Leslie Wexner ignored inappropriate behavior of top executive

The Times investigation involved interviews with more than 30 current and former executives

Jeffrey Epstein looks on during a status hearing in his sex trafficking case, in this court sketch in New York

Despite declining income inequality, Israeli productivity lags behind

Between 2012 and 2017, the net income of households in lowest and middle quintiles increased at an average annual rate of 4%, compared to 2.6% among highest-quintile households.

Employees of Partner, an Israeli communication firm, work at their desks at Partner's headquaters in Rosh Ha'ayin near Tel Aviv, Israel June 21, 2016.

Israel's 70th anniversary through Arab eyes

Not everyone shares the same vision for the Jewish state.

AN ISRAELI Arab girl takes part in a ‘Land Day’ rally, an annual commemoration of the killing of six Arab citizens by Israeli police in 1976 during protests against land confiscations in Deir Hanna in Galilee

The inequality among Holocaust survivors

A Channel 2 report aired Saturday night highlighted this discrepancy and the plight of three elderly survivors living below the poverty line.

Young survivors of Auschwitz await the arrival of their Soviet liberators on January 7, 1945

Taub report: Economic slowdown, high poverty and inequality in Israel in 2017

"A State of the Nation 2017," produced by the Taub Center, offers a snapshot of the socioeconomic condition of Israel in 2017.

A homeless man lies on the street.