Kim Young-soon, an office cleaner in her early 70s, says she grapples with high costs of living as her disposable income has ...

I keep thinking about the opening of E.L. Doctorow’s 1975 novel, “Ragtime,” in which he describes the convivial America of the early 20th century. “The population customarily gathered in ...

The slump reflects lingering damage from the “adverse shocks of recent years,’’ including COVID-19 and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The bank’s latest Global Economics Prospects report, which comes ...

So we need to pick the best metric possible. For years, the number used to measure inequality has been the Gini coefficient. It’s not hard to see why, given its alluring simplicity: 0 denotes ...

with the Gini coefficient for equivalised household net worth decreasing from 0.609 in 2018-19 to 0.584 in 2022-23”. The danger in Dr Leigh’s analysis is that it will result in government ...

As to how economics can help us to analyze war and peace, one key point is that we must pay attention to not only the size of the economic pie but also how it is sliced. This includes not only ...

Virginia S. “Gini” (Carpenter) Varg, 100, longtime Auburn resident, passed peacefully on Sunday, January 5, 2025 surrounded by her loving family. Calling hours will be from 2:00 – 4:00 PM on ...