Survey shows racial disparity in 401k savings rate

A new study of 401(k) plans has revealed that black and Hispanic workers save significantly less for retirement and tap into their accounts more frequently than white and Asian employees.

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Urban areas struggle to find grocers, fresh food

Selma Lozoya didn't realize how tough it would be to help her obese mother lose weight until she had to forage for fresh groceries in the inner city.

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For the West the phrase "the crisis" has a clear enough meaning: the financial crisis that hit the rich countries with great impact, and is therefore of supreme importance. But even for the rich and privileged that is by no means the only crisis, nor even the most severe.

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Health Care Reform - Insurance Company Reform

Anyone who has health insurance knows that they can go to any number of places to get their prescription and all they do is pay a minimal fee.

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Lee Ohanian, an economics professor at UCLA who has extensively studied New Deal policies and depressions, told FOXNews.com that the spending patterns our study found "certainly don't fit what you would think that they would be from the standpoint of government spending as a soci …

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Even when they get identical medical treatment, black Americans with breast, ovarian and prostate cancer tend to die earlier than patients of other races, a finding that suggests biological or genetic factors may play an important role.

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The 2008 AIG bonus pool just keeps getting larger and larger. In a response to detailed questions from Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), the company has offered a third assessment of exactly how much it paid out in bonuses last year.

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"You say you are for all the people. How can you be for all the people – and African Americans didn't get one-percent of a million dollars?"

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Dermatology is becoming a two-tier business in which higher-paying customers are often pampered.

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Most people, no matter where they fall on the economic spectrum, believe they're in some way part of the middle class according to a new report by the Pew Research Center."Being middle class is not only a state of income and assets, it's a state of mind," said Paul Taylor, the ce …

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Why 'Low human development and inequality' is associated with deeply religious societies.

(The Human Development Index (HDI) is a comparative measure of life expectancy, literacy, education, and standards of living for countries worldwide.

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Democrat introduces paper-ballot legislation after Voting Machines are entrusted to GOP and NH recount shows glaring irregularities

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The Treasury study examined a huge sample of 96,700 income tax returns from 1996 and 2005 for Americans over the age of 25. The study tracks what happened to these tax filers over this 10-year period.

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In his new book, The Conscience of a Liberal, economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman examines two trends of recent years: the rise in economic inequality in the United States and the number of wealthy Americans, as well as the growth in political polarization.

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As the Democrats, in spite of themselves, are grappling with the polarities in their party, it behooves us, one and all, to ponder who they thought they were and how they got there.

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There is a widely held belief that Republicans are better for business than are Democrats. Let's look at the facts.

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My day job is keeping me up at night. It's not because of my paycheck, my boss, or a fear of being outsourced. I know that I'm one of the lucky ones.

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Should an undergraduate studying business pay more than one studying psychology? Should a journalism degree cost more than one in literature? More and more public universities, confronting rising costs and lagging state support, have decided the answers may be yes and yes.

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Having spent a fair amount of time in occupied Iraq, I now find living in the United States nothing short of a schizophrenic experience. Life in Iraq was traumatizing.

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According to yesterday's Observer, the big issues facing Gordon Brown as he moves in next door later this week are Iraq, public spending and the super-rich.

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The ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, says he is giving $10bn (£5bn) to set up an educational foundation in the Middle East.

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...Blacks 3.8 times more likely than whites to receive a higher-cost home loan

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"The percentage of poor Americans who are living in severe poverty has reached a 32-year high, millions of working Americans are falling closer to the poverty line and the gulf between the nation's "haves" and "have-nots" continues to widen."?

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Black female inmates outnumber white female inmates three to one, and their punishments don't always fit their crimes.

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Cable news networks -- hell, journalists in general -- love it when a politician sticks his foot in his mouth.

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A Modest Proposal: For preventing societies from not handling the real problem of disparity

(satire) It is a melancholy experience strolling urban streets today. Men stand on street corners brandishing cardboard signs, pleading for beer money. Teenage mothers wander past, wielding fatherless children as they eek out life on state welfare and Medicaid.

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