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This interview examines income inequality in the United States. Dan Ariely, a behavioral economist with Duke University, argues that Americans have become tolerant of the income inequality in the U.S., and that most people do not realize how great the difference in income is between wealthy and impoverished Americans.

This article speaks about how a key driving factor in the Egyptian uprising was income inequality. As Egypt developed, a small portion of the population became very rich while most people continued to struggle.

One of the major problems in the Thailand, a country at political crisis, is the economic inequality between the rich and poor which is aggravating the political situation between the middle-class and low-class. This is relevant to this week's topic because a proper government is not placed in Thailand to redistribute the riches' wealth to the poor population.

This article is about governments such as China and South Korea making deals to purchase land from poorer countries. The locals living on the land are often poor and have no say in the deal. This shows the income inequality both between and within nations, as it is the poorer countries and the poorer citizens within those countries that suffer.

This article discuss on the argument of whether or not to impose higher tax rates on the upper class of the economy.

The gap between the rich and poor in the UK remained at a high level in 2007-8, official statistics have shown.