1 : the quality of being unequal or uneven: such as. a : social disparity. b : disparity of distribution or opportunity. c : lack of evenness.

Living in an unequal society causes stress and status anxiety, which may damage your health. In more equal societies people live longer, are less likely to be mentally ill or obese and there are lower rates of infant mortality.

Reducing inequality requires transformative change. Greater efforts are needed to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, and invest more in health, education, social protection and decent jobs especially for young people, migrants and other vulnerable communities.

Conflict theorists do not believe that public schools reduce social inequality. Rather, they believe that the educational system reinforces and perpetuates social inequalities that arise from differences in class, gender, race, and ethnicity.

Increasing secondary schooling does reduce inequality by reducing the gap in access to school. However, as predicted by our model, among these older students, those from low-income families benefit less from a year of secondary schooling than do those from higher-income families.

By widening the gap in educational opportunities between children from low- and higher-income families, increasing income inequality jeopardizes the upward socioeconomic mobility that has long held our pluralistic democracy together.

Income inequality is exacerbating the gap between rich and poor school children. Now two new studies show that the summer learning gap between the lower and middle classes may be narrowing while the rich surge ahead of everyone.

If inequality affects how income groups behave… growth may be affected by their inability to invest in education and their lower health levels, among other factors. may reduce its demand for goods and services. could see them accumulate savings, which banks can then lend out, so increasing investment in the economy.

Had income growth been equally distributed, which in this analysis means that all families’ incomes would have grown at the pace of the average, the poverty rate would have been 5.5 points lower, essentially, 44 percent lower than what it was. …