More than 50,000 families are living below the poverty line in Edinburgh, Scotland's most affluent city. Edinburgh is exposed as "...

Scotland's top earners have increased their income at a greater rate than the rest of the nation's workers in the past decade, acco...

The survey, which is based on publicly available data, breaks down wealth to an average of $51,600 per adult around the globe, but in real...

Even ancient Rome was more egalitarian than the world today. Marcus Crassus, whose wealth was calculated as being roughly equal to that of ...

Scotland's wealthiest households are now 273-times better off than the most deprived, according to Oxfam Scotland and the gap is widen...

0.1% of the world population hold 81% of the wealth and the ratio of poverty to wealthy statistic went from 3:1 in 1820 to 35:1 in 1950 to ...

Statistics say the Swiss are the richest people in the world, with net financial assets of nearly $148,000 per capita. That is a third more...

The world's richest 100 people earned enough last year to end extreme poverty for the planet's poorest people four times over, Oxf...

The cost of train tickets increased by 3.9 per cent this month  but Scotrail boss Stephen Montgomery won't be too inconvienienced. His...

McDonald's sells more than 75 hamburgers every second. McDonald's' daily customer traffic 62 million, that's about 1 perc...

Nearly half the French people consider themselves poor or fear they soon will be, said a survey . Salaried employees, manual labourers an...

The world's 1,226 billionaires have more combined wealth than 3.5 billion people - half the entire planet's population. The richest...

According to economics professor John Foster, the aggregate wealth of Britain’s richest 1,000 people was in 2010 some £333 billion, equiv...

New Zealand today has one of the worst rates of income inequality compared with other developed or wealthy countries. Two-income families a...

The Bank of Italy reveals that the wealth of the country's 10 richest individuals equals that of Italy's 3 million poorest. 10% of ...

The recent riots in east Belfast led to renewed hand-wringing about the "Protestant working class" . Protestants are not the only ...

Five bosses at publicly owned Scottish Water have shared in a one-off bonus pay-out of more than £450,000. Chief executive Richard Ackroyd w...

The gap between rich and poor in Edinburgh is bigger than in most other UK cities. Centre for Cities analyst Paul Swinney said: "It sh...

The Big Issue carries an article on Edinburgh's rich/poor divide .JK Rowling has written about the shock of first moving to a council e...

We read Scottish Water's chief executive, Richard Ackroyd earns a basic salary of £263,000 plus a 40 per cent bonus. Junior employees at...