Bill Gates says he has paid more than $10 billion in taxes over a lifetime but billionaires like him should pay "significantly" more because they benefit more from the system.
Business
Feb 19, 2018
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China's rapidly growing middle class is expected to be a boon for the travel industry, in both China and the U.S. in coming years.
Economics & Business
Sep 22, 2014
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A new study finds that first-generation college graduates are more likely to come from families that have higher incomes and more resources than families in which neither parents nor children graduate from college. The study ...
Social Sciences
Apr 21, 2023
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I was waiting in a fashionable café for Tang Xiaohe (Names have been changed to protect anonymity) in the Dongzhimen district in Beijing. Every bit of the décor in the café signalled the prosperity of China's capital city. ...
Social Sciences
Oct 25, 2018
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The benefits of social mobility seem to be widely agreed on. The idea that a person's opportunities and earnings should not be defined by their background is supported across the political spectrum.
Social Sciences
May 5, 2022
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For the past two years, and with support from the UPLOAD project, Dr Koen Leurs has been interviewing young Londoners to generate data about how the social media generation deals with cultural differences.
Social Sciences
Apr 30, 2015
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Americans are getting married at ever-older ages, and a new report says this trend may be partly responsible for the shrinking of the middle class.
Social Sciences
Mar 15, 2013
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People who see themselves as being in a higher social class may tend to have an exaggerated belief that they are more adept than their equally capable lower-class counterparts, and that overconfidence can often be misinterpreted ...
Social Sciences
May 20, 2019
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In a new Ph.D. thesis from Lund University in Sweden, gender studies researcher Marco Bacio interviewed male sex workers in Sweden and Italy. What surprised him the most was that a majority of the sex workers were well-educated—and ...
Social Sciences
May 12, 2023
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Few companies better understand the difficulties of doing business in Indonesia than BlackBerry maker Research In Motion.
Business
Jan 1, 2012
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