NEW YORK (NEWS10) — An infographic created with data from a 2018 Economic Policy Institute report ranks New York as the state with the greatest income disparity between the top 1% of earners and ...

According to a recent paper, the share of wealth held by the richest 10 percent of U.S. households stands at 79 percent while the 60 percent least wealthy households own little over 2.4 percent.

Submitted for Publication by Norwich University Online Income inequality is a global issue that has become more prominent in recent years. As the top 1 percent now own 40 percent of all national ...

03-21-2018 INFOGRAPHIC OF THE DAY Map: America’s Income Inequality Is Even Worse Than You Thought A new mapping project shows the stark divide between America’s rich and poor.

The impact of income inequality on the average American is profound. It results in reduced social mobility, making it harder for individuals to improve their economic status.

We find that when you count all transfer payments and taxes, income inequality is actually lower than it was in 1947, and yet we're having this huge debate about rebuilding the whole economy to ...

The same goes for a tax on wealth. Most important: Not all income inequality is bad. Inequality emerges in more than one way, some of it justifiable, some of it not.

Rose concludes that real median incomes grew by a little over 40% from 1979 to 2014, the top 10% only captured about 45% of income growth, meaning 55%—not 0%—went to the remaining 90% of ...

For middle-income families, it was 33 percent lower. Net worth for those groups, $10,800 and $110,1000 respectively, are comparable to 1989 levels, according to Pew.

The BIS study measured income inequality by the Gini index, a standard metric but one that tends to understate the type of inequality driven by large increases for the top 1 percent.