Promised a path to prosperity through hard work and education, China’s working class youths are hitting immovable ceilings.

While the UK government claims its moves “will protect the most vulnerable,” in reality its plans to cut £4.5 billion in disability-linked benefits by 2030 will have a devastating impact on people’s ...

The benefits of pet companionship have been widely researched and celebrated. Pets can improve our mood and immune system.

The elimination of Digital Equity Act funding will harm people in need of computer skills training to improve their lives.

In the last decades much scientific literature on the analysis of educational inequalities has been published (Breen et al., ...

The study finds that only 36.2% of surveyed teens had access to a personal digital device. This limited ownership sharply ...

Do you think children today will have a better, worse, or roughly the same life to you?” was a question posed by the Gallup Organisation in 2022 in 64 countries. Globally, only 44% of the adult ...

Social stratification explains how class, status, and power shape life chances from access to education and healthcare to career opportunities and social mobility. This simplified breakdown shows how ...

The study found that happiness exerts a measurable and positive effect on income. Specifically, a 1% increase in happiness ...

Research suggests that psychological biases may limit support for reducing economic disparities. But there are ways to get ...

U.S. income inequality has varied inversely with union density over the past hundred years. But moving beyond this aggregate relationship has proven difficult, in part because of limited microdata on ...

Background Knowledge on the origins of the social gradient in stroke incidence in different populations is limited. This study aims to estimate the burden of educational class inequalities in stroke ...