Extreme wealth concentration can feel too entrenched to change. In the United States, fortunes at the top have grown ...

This report examines how stock buybacks and the broader model of shareholder primacy contribute to the racial wealth gap in the United States. While racial wealth inequality is often discussed in ...

State’s Chaotic Rollout Foreshadows Risks as Nationwide Deadline Draws Near For details and further accounts by Medicaid recipients and staff, please see the accompanying issue brief, "Impacts of the ...

Oxfam partners are trying to get food, clean water, and medicine to desperate families. Here’s the latest, and what you can do to help. Getting humanitarian aid into Gaza is a complicated mess—but it ...

The inequality of resource wealth: Communities rich in oil and minerals often live in poverty. Few sectors have contributed more to the twin crises of global inequality and climate change than oil, ...

What is happening in Lebanon? Oxfam is working with partner organizations in Lebanon to help people displaced by Israeli airstrikes. We have been supporting the work of Lebanese organizations ...

Escalating conflict in Iran, Lebanon, and other parts of Southwest Asia and North Africa, also known as the Middle East, is creating a massive humanitarian crisis. The consequences of the unlawful ...

On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) into law. In addition to containing tax cuts that overwhelmingly benefit high-income households and corporations, the ...

When natural disasters strike, they hit poor communities first and worst. And since women make up an estimated 70 percent of those living below the poverty line, they are most likely to bear the ...

Digital technologies have the potential to either ameliorate or worsen the dynamics underlying poverty and inequality, depending on how those technologies are designed, developed, deployed, and used, ...

New research reveals that nearly a third of all workers in the US earn under $15 an hour. But women and people of color do much more than their fair share of low-wage jobs, and as wages lose value, it ...

The climate crisis is affecting every country on every continent. But it doesn’t affect everyone equally — nor is everyone equally responsible. For example, a farmer in Bangladesh emits few greenhouse ...