The White House says President Joe Biden is taking new steps to address racial inequality throughout the federal governm...

Walmart is expanding health care coverage for employees who want to use a doula, a person trained to assist women during...

As the Federal Reserve intensifies its efforts to tame high inflation, its top officials are casting their aggressive dr...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is calling on the world's most developed countries to take on and counter widenin...

Democrats have celebrated President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan as a blow against one of America’s mo...

Africa’s top public health official says “it will be extremely terrible to see” rich countries receiving COVID-19 vaccin...

The lines for free COVID-19 tests stretch for blocks and hours in cities where people feel the dual strain of the corona...

Organizers of a national workers strike say tens of thousands are set to walk off the job Monday morning in more than tw...

The French economist Thomas Piketty’s research has helped define a debate about the consequences of concentrating so muc...

For years, financial inequality has widened in the United States and elsewhere as wealth and income have become increasi...