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 ...

A decade after a Saudi-led coalition intervened to restore the internationally recognized government of Yemen to power, the country remains deeply divided, facing economic freefall and a devastating ...

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 ...

Kitao Lenamparas, a farmer in Samburu County, Kenya, works in his bean field. This area of Kenya recently had five consecutive failed rainy seasons. This climate-induced drought caused widespread loss ...

Billionaire wealth jumped by over 16 percent in 2025, three times faster than the past five-year average, to $18.3 trillion – its highest level in history, according to a new Oxfam report today as the ...