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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 433

inequality

An Indian migrant worker, who makes her living by selling balloons and toys, cooks food for her family outside a tent on a cold morning in a slum in Jammu, India, Dec. 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)
December 9, 2021, 9:01 am
Billionaires’ share of global wealth soars as pandemic widens inequality gap
World Inequality Report says 2020 saw steepest increase in global billionaires’ share of wealth on record, while 100 million more people fall into extreme poverty
By Ali BEKHTAOUI
People wait in line to receive a dose of the Covishield coronavirus vaccine, at Tej Bahadur Sapru hospital in Allahabad, on May 1, 2021, during the first day of India's vaccination drive to all adults. (Sanjay Kanoija/AFP)
August 10, 2021, 11:39 pm
WHO urges global power players to end ‘disgraceful’ vaccine inequity
Top health body official says world should be ‘disgusted,’ asks whether situation could be worse had there been an active effort to block the planet’s poor from getting vaccinated
By AFP
Oxford University. (Shutterstock)
October 20, 2017, 3:01 pm
Oxford University accused of ‘social apartheid’ for low number of black students
10 of elite institution’s 32 colleges accepted no black British students in 2015; Cambridge, where 6 colleges took no UK black students, blames low application rates
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Workers doing data entry at the offices of Unit One in Gaza City (Mahmud Hams / AFP)
March 9, 2017, 1:37 am
Palestinian women earn far less than male counterparts, report finds
PA Central Bureau of Statistics says wage gap stands at 27 percent, with females less likely to receive promotions and bonuses
By Dov Lieber
British Prime Minister Theresa May speaks in central London on January 9, 2017. (AFP/Pool//Dan Kitwood)
January 14, 2017, 8:12 am
Governments grapple with globalization backlash
Politicians facing legions of long-disgruntled voters are now scrambling for solutions, but experts warn populist remedies may only make things worse
By Antonio RODRIGUEZ
Illustrative: A view of the upscale Mamila neighborhood in Jerusalem, on October 27, 2015. Most of the luxury apartments are owned by foreign residents or by Israelis who use them as vacation homes. (Lior Mizrahi/Flash90)
November 22, 2016, 7:29 am
Who is rich? In Israel, it’s he who owns an apartment
Wages have not increased in real terms since 2000, while housing prices more than doubled, a Taub Center study shows. As a result, hard work and talent are less likely to get you ahead than already possessing wealth
By Simona Weinglass
Nisan Avraham
October 20, 2016, 11:17 am
Nisan Avraham
Is economic inequality as bad as we perceive it to be?
Similar to many Western countries, Israel has seen an increase in economic inequality since the 1970s, one reason being the development of technology and the increase in wages for highly-qualified workers
Amna Farooqi
February 26, 2016, 12:58 pm
Amna Farooqi
The human cost of occupation
On the hardships wrought by land seizures and separation barrier construction in an East Jerusalem village
Democratic presidential contender Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) on stage during the New Hampshire Democratic Party State Convention on September 19, 2015 in Manchester, New Hampshire. (Scott Eisen/Getty Images/AFP)
January 31, 2016, 6:17 am
Bernie Sanders: Democratic socialist calling for ‘political revolution’
Jewish progressive who spent three decades as an independent touches a chord among those disaffected with Washington
By Jennie Matthew
An elderly man searches among the garbage near the food market in the central Israeli city of Petah Tikva, June 24, 2015. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
October 28, 2015, 4:37 pm
Cronyism, not terrorism, is the biggest threat to Israel, hit TV series says
Airing this week, ‘Silver Platter’ seeks to fire up the public’s imagination with a systematic exposition on runaway inequality and greedy elites
By Simona Weinglass
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