Income inequality in America is at a high level by historical standards. Simply put, the rich have gotten richer much faster than others. In 2021, the average income of the richest 1% of ...

The way we measure income inequality is changing. After years of relying on a complicated metric called the Gini coefficient, some economists argue that we should adopt the Palma ratio, which ...

A Newsweek map shows which U.S. region has seen the ... there was no significant change in income inequality. "This indicates that income increased at the bottom, middle and top of the income ...

Income inequality in the U.S. is considerable ... the median U.S. annual household income was $80,610. The map above shows the pattern of median income across the U.S. Let’s start with a ...

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 in the U.S. is particularly high for a developed economy. At numerous times during its history, the country has attempted to address the issue through policy, legislation ...

From 2017 to 2018, the data indicate, income inequality also widened in eight other states, including Alabama, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Virginia and New Mexico, although in most other states it ...

“Income inequality is not rising,” Gramm and his ... the Census Bureau’s annual inequality reports, which mostly map broad-based inequality. The latest Census report, which came out last ...

On these pages, we have debunked the myth that income inequality is extreme and growing on a secular basis by showing that the Census Bureau measure of income fails to include two-thirds of all ...