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America’s expanding proletariat
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America’s expanding proletariat

The feeling reflects the fact that concerns about affordability and social mobility now span a much broader spectrum of income and education brackets.

Graphic Truth: Where's the World's Worst Inequality?
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Graphic Truth: Where's the World's Worst Inequality?

Over the past several decades income inequality for the world as a whole has fallen, but within most countries the gap between the ultra-rich and everyone else remains stubbornly high. Here's a heat map of wealth inequality around the world.

Medical workers treat injured people at Ameth Bek hospital after a drone strike on a market in the disputed Abyei region along the border between South Sudan and Sudan, October 19, 2026.
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South Sudan suffers drone strike, Romania finally gets a government, Colombia revives sea beef with Nicaragua

South Sudan is accusing neighboring Sudan of launching a drone strike that killed at least 73 people at a market in Abyei, a disputed, oil-rich region of roughly 4,000 square miles claimed by both countries.