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Staff Writer at The New Yorker Evan Osnos joins Chris Jansing to share more on his new book “The Haves and Have-Yachts” and ...

Reflecting on the Soweto Uprising, this article explores how education and AI impact South Africa's youth in their ongoing struggle against inequality ...

Structural poverty is one of the forms of poverty that exists in Indonesia. What exactly is structural poverty?

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Experts explain to Big Issue how women can close the gender pay gap and begin to take control of their financial futures.

There’s not a peep from the U.S. government, academia or Wall Street about something that is vital to our social stability ...

Per capita income is a statistical average, which tells us the size of the economic pie, but not how it’s divided.