BlackRock CEO Larry Fink warns that the artificial intelligence boom threatens to exacerbate inequality https://t.co/SwFrR2R9iY ...

People who live and work in Washington state don’t currently pay any income tax. But in a few years, a small group of residents will be subject to one: Washington lawmakers recently passed a bill that would impose a 9.9% tax on income earned above $1 million, which goes into effect on January 1, 2028. Most Read from Fast Company The so-called millionaires tax could raise up to $4 billion annually for the state—revenue that Gov. Bob Ferguson has said could go toward free breakfast and lunch for students, ...

Despite Xi Jinping’s talk of greater equality, China is woefully behind the curve on inheritance. Its inaction could widen inequality, cement privilege and breed resentment https://t.co/ys0V4OIFhL ...

“In the late 19th century concerns over the effect of inequality and the extreme fluctuations of the economy brought the Gilded Age to an end,” says Richard White. “The economy did not produce the change. Politics did” https://t.co/U0GEiJ2MxG ...

China’s wealth is in increasingly liver-spotted hands. Resentment at inequality and limited opportunities appear to be changing the aspirations of young people https://t.co/BAA8ho5n4i ...

Before Lagos became the fashion capital of Nigeria, before African designs walked the runways of Paris and Milan, there was Fagi, a small historic community in Cano State, Northern Nigeria. A place travelers once stopped by to rest during trade journeys. In house feed by centuries ago, people didn't just stop there.They stayed, they traded, they created, and they built something timeless. I was born and raised in In my house there is a tellering shop that has existed for more than 30 years even before I was ...

So, check this out. Imagine a 9-year-old girl named Angelica. She wakes before sunrise in a remote village in the Philippines.Her hands already calloused from years of labor. She doesn't go to school. Instead, she walks barefoot to a nearby gold mine where she spends most of her days waste deep in toxic slurry, sifting for flexcks of gold.Cyanide and mercury swirl around her, silently poisoning her body. She's one of thousands of children trapped in a cycle of environmental degradation, labor exploitation, ...

In the half-century or so between the civil war and the first world war, America was transformed. These six books chronicle a deeply unequal, often cynical old order slowly giving way to something new https://t.co/YFndkMpNdr ...

Thank you. Thank you everyone. Let me begin with a story.A girl was born in a small village in Nepal where nature felt closer than people. She grew up with four brothers, playing football together, barefoot on dusty fields, walking to school side by side, and fighting the way siblings do. At home, she never experienced gender discrimination.But when she stepped into the wider world, she began to see how deeply inequality saves women's lives. After 10 years of schooling in her village, she moved to a city to ...

Longtime Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein discusses current U.S. policy, inequality, AI, the current risk of a "bubble," criticism of Wall St. and Goldman Sachs, Pres. Trump's trade war and Federal Reserve meddling, and Blankfein's career, in this wide-ranging discussion. Blankfein also outlines how to assess risk, a functioning market, investor discipline, what money is good for and if any amount is "too much" for one person - and his new book, "Streetwise: Getting to and Through Goldman Sachs." This inte ...