Oxfam America

Resisting the Rule of the Rich

In 2025, billionaire wealth grew at a rate three times faster than the past five-year average, reaching its highest level in history at $18.3 trillion. This comes as one in four people don't regularly ...
CNN

Why America’s rich keep getting richer

Good news: Americans across all income brackets got richer over the past 3 years! But wealthy Americans’ net worth is growing at a much faster pace than middle- and lower-income Americans’. The net ...
The New York Times

Rich People Didn’t Look Like This Before

Ms. Odell is the author of the Back Row newsletter and “Anna: The Biography.” If you spend enough time around the very rich these days, it’s clear. People didn’t look like this before because people ...
YourTango

10 Things Poor People Buy Often That Rich People Rarely Spend A Dime On

The gap between the rich and the poor continues to widen, with wealth inequality reaching its widest gap in more than 30 years. Between low wages and declining employment, people are pinching pennies ...
Polygon

The Bride! takes the Frankenstein story on a messy, manic, monstrous ride

In some alternate universe, there’s probably a simpler, more straightforward version of Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Frankenstein spin-off movie The Bride! that’s currently getting called a must-see ...
Time

Tax the Rich. They’re Not Going Anywhere

Follow this section to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. WHY FOLLOW? Update your preferences in Account Settings Personalized Content Follow this tag to personalize your feed and get ...
The Conversation

What our teeth reveal about the growing gap between rich and poor

Teeth are one of the most visible markers of poverty: structural circumstances that are individually borne. In an essay for Aeon, US journalist Sarah Smarsh calls them “poor teeth”. She writes: Often, ...
Forbes

Fifty Years Ago, ‘Rich Man, Poor Man’ Redefined Event Television

RICH MAN, POOR MAN - BOOK I - Gallery - Shoot Date: January 12, 1976. (Photo by ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images) NICK NOLTE;SUSAN BLAKELY;PETER STRAUSS Long ...
Reuters

AI could increase divide between rich and poor states, UN report warns

GENEVA, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Artificial Intelligence could widen gaps between developed and developing countries, a U.N. report said on Tuesday, calling for policy measures to limit the impact. The ...
The American Prospect

Selling the Poor on Spending Like They’re Rich

This article appears in the December 2025 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. We are living in a new Gilded Age. The first, from roughly 1870 to 1890, was marked by dramatic ...
USA Today

Rich people are spending. Everyone else is cutting corners.

If America’s economy has a prosperous holiday season, the data suggests, we’ll have rich folks to thank. The top 10% of earners now account for roughly half of all consumer spending, according to a ...
InvestmentNews

Rich Dad Poor Dad in the context of modern financial advice

If you worked in finance during the late 1990s, you likely encountered Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki. The book on investment advice was published in April of 1997 and appeared on the New York ...