Discover what income inequality is, its primary causes, and how it's measured. Learn about its impact on society and explore ...

A recent study published in Psychological Science suggests that local shifts in the gap between the rich and the poor do not ...

We asked economists from across the political spectrum for their policy prescriptions. Their suggestions run the gamut.

Americans rarely marry outside of their race or class in a nation where residential segregation is relatively common. It is a ...

U.S. income inequality grew in 2021 for the first time in a decade, according to data the Census Bureau released in September 2022. That might sound surprising, since the most accurate measure of the ...

Several studies by Thomas Piketty and his colleagues purporting to show that income inequality has increased dramatically in the United States over the last 60 years have influenced the public’s views ...

To illustrate Ohio’s inequality, the latest Scioto Analysis report compared the federal poverty level to the wealth of the richest man in Ohio.

Income inequality has given the rich a greater share of the economic spoils than middle- and low-income earners. That's resulted in a very real impact on the incomes of middle- and low-income ...

A key priority of the Biden administration is to lessen the disparity in income between the wealthiest U.S. households and the rest of the populace: The top 10 percent today account for one half of ...

Miami Beach, Florida, has the highest income inequality in America of cities with populations of 50,000 or more. In Miami Beach, 23.7% of households earn less than $25,000, while 11.7% of households ...

A modern myth is that the more government taxes and spends, the more “equality” it brings. Brazil is proving that is not the ...