Lawmakers are taking a closer look at how the IRS selects taxpayers for audit after studies evidence black taxpayers are audited more often than any other group. (Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique ...

Permitted disparity, also called Social Security integration, describes a contribution allocation formula or a benefit accrual formula that has two tiers of benefits. Under this formula, higher paid ...

Houston officials and business owners are growing concerned about the accuracy of a disparity study the city needs to help defend itself in a lawsuit attempting to eradicate its minority business ...

A comprehensive study on racial disparity in Allegheny County’s criminal justice system shows that Black people are five times more likely to be arrested than white people, 10 times more likely to be ...

Students walk off a bus to the Thunder Mountain Middle School entrance for the first day of school on Thursday, Aug. 15, 2024. The Alaska Department of Education and Early Development failed a test ...

Attorney General Merrick Garland issued new guidance on Friday essentially eliminating the disparity in federal sentencing for the distribution of crack cocaine versus powder cocaine, a policy that ...

The state's Judicial Tenure Commission, the agency tasked with handling misconduct reports about Michigan judges, has significant racial disparities in several areas of its investigative process, ...

Adamson is a dermatologist and health disparities researcher at Dell Medical School. Patel is a resident physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Welch is a general internist at Brigham ...

I was raised, in part, by my paternal grandmother—a phenomenal black woman born in 1925 who came of age during Jim Crow, attended Bethune-Cookman University in the early 1940s, and experienced both ...