The level of economic inequality in the city of Santiago in Brazil is evident along the border of a high-density, low-income favela neighborhood next to high-rise ...

This report outlines how global inequality is shockingly entrenched and vast, with the number of billionaires having doubled in the last decade. The report also shows how our sexist economies are ...

For decades, the largest US corporations have been driving the inequality crisis, actively concentrating power and money in the hands of wealthy CEOs and shareholders while limiting the power of ...

Global inequality stems not just from what people have and don’t have—but what they're able to do with what they have. “The levels of inequality are horrendous," said Janet Fuentes, an activist from ...

Oxfam examines what this means for the U.S. and the world. For years, Oxfam—along with advocates and activists around the world—has argued that extreme concentration of wealth is leading to extreme ...

A case of mismatch between supply and demand. This report from Oxfam and Sumerian Partners questions some of the assumptions around impact investment and highlights the experience of enterprises ...

Kitao Lenamparas, a farmer in Samburu County, Kenya, works in his bean field. This area of Kenya recently had five consecutive failed rainy seasons. This climate-induced drought caused widespread loss ...

The impact of US sanctions on the Cuban population and women's lives Right to Live without a Blockade reveals the impact of nearly six decades of sanctions imposed by successive US governments on the ...

Inequality contributes to the death of at least one person every four seconds. Ahead of the Davos Agenda—the World Economic Forum’s virtual State of the World sessions—Oxfam released our annual ...

The Best States to Work Index, now in its sixth edition, is an index of 27 policies across three themes - wages, worker protections, and rights to organize - for all 50 states, the District of ...

Universal health, education and other public services reduce the gap between rich and poor, and between women and men. Fairer taxation of the wealthiest can help pay for them. Our economy is broken, ...

Wealth inequality in the US is more extreme and dangerous than income inequality; and we need to change our approach, so we effectively tax wealth as well as income. We offer five reasons why a wealth ...