In signs of rising income inequality, India's richest 1% now hold a huge 58% of the country's total wealth -- higher t...

CAPITALISM IS HELL The number of people using food banks in Scotland has risen by two-thirds. A total of 117, 689 people - including...

A new Scottish Government report shows boys   living in Scotland's most deprived communities can now expect to live to just 46 before t...

In the most deprived communities, men and women can expect to spend 22.7 years and 26.1 years respectively in "not good" health....

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...

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

Both the Faculty of Advocates and the Law Society of Scotland have criticised the Courts Reform (Scotland) Bill. The Faculty of Advocates w...

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 ...

The NHS is failing to provide needs-based care in areas of blanket deprivation, GPs working in Scotland's poorest areas will tell MSPs...

Human-beings are a community animal. Individuals are biologically unique while also only being psychologically complete when acting as an e...

A plea for help by the head of a French charity, struggling to cope with an “explosion” in demand, has highlighted the increase in povert...

Boroughmuir High School in Edinburgh came joint first in Scotland, (along with Glasgow’s Jordanhill School), after figures released showed...

Just five percent of the population own 80 percent of the farmland in Guatemala. Fifty-four percent of the population lives in poverty and ...

New figures revealed men in the wealthiest areas live 11 years longer than those in the most deprived parts of the country. For women, the...

Europe's richest families are suffering , the poor wee souls. Having had returns on investments of 8 percent in 2011 and nearly 12 perc...

Just four years after the worst shock to the economy since the Great Recession, U.S. corporate profits are stronger than ever. In the ...

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...

How many people know that out of 150 countries, the United States have the fourth-highest wealth disparity? Only Zimbabwe, Namibia and Swit...

In 2012, the World Economic Forum calculated that 1 per cent of the world's population - just 70 million people - own half of the wor...