It was the extraordinary equality of income among the bottom 60% of American households, regardless of employment status. In 2017, among working-age households, the bottom 20% earned only $6,941 ...

The U.S. may have the highest level of income inequality of the G7 nations, but new research suggests that disparity has actually stabilized over the last decade, thanks to rapid growth in wages ...

Income inequality and carbon dioxide emissions for high-income nations such as the United States, Denmark and Canada are intrinsically linked – but a new study from Drexel University has taken a ...

Scramble the timeline. “Income inequality is not rising,” Gramm and his co-authors state. “It has in fact fallen by 3.0 percent since 1947 as compared to the 22.9 percent increase shown in ...

Income inequality in the United States has become a defining issue of our time, with the gap between the rich and the poor expanding significantly over the past few decades.

Adapted from "Inequality Kills Us All: Covid-19’s Health Lessons for the World," by Stephen Bezruchka, M.D., M.P.H. In 1992, a publication appeared in the British Medical Journal written by ...

Income inequality is starker than ever — or so we’ve been told. New research by economists Gerald Auten and David Splinter indicates that the prevailing narrative of runaway inequality is not ...

A key mea­sure of US income inequality rose to a new record in 2021, the first year of President Joe Biden’s term.. The so-called Gini Index rose by 1.2% last year to 0.494, according to data ...

Fewer bankruptcies, more homeowners. Debt levels in the 2022 survey showed little change since 2019. But families were in a better position to cover those debts than they had been earlier, and the ...

Altogether in 2017, 17 percent of tax filers submitted a form to the I.R.S. indicating receipt of self-employment income, the highest share since data became available in 1957 and up substantially ...

Income inequality and carbon dioxide emissions for high-income nations such as the United States, Denmark and Canada are intrinsically linked – but a new study from Drexel University has taken a ...