The lowest 20% of earners (under $29,000 per year) could face a 6.2% income loss due to tariff-driven price hikes, while the top 1% (over $915,000 per year) could lose just 1.7% of their income [24].

Six decades of civil-rights efforts haven’t budged it, and the usual prescriptions—including reparations—offer no lasting ...

After 1923, income inequality began to rise again, reaching a new peak in 1928—just before the crash that would usher in the Great Depression—with the richest 1% possessing 21.3% of all income.

For more than four decades, Robert Reich has been ringing the alarm bell about rising inequality in America. He did it as a member of three presidential administrations, including a stint as labor ...

The Gilded Age was a period of enormous wealth for some and extreme poverty for others.

Yet it is income segregation, not race, that is the driver of achievement gaps, research shows. “Black, Hispanic, Native American kids attend lower-income schools,” Professor Owens said.

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Everyone knows that inequality has gotten out of hand in the United States. Thanks largely to the work of three now-famous economists—Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez, and Gabriel Zucman—it’s ...

For each state, we reviewed data on all cities, towns, and unincorporated communities with populations of 55,000 or more, and ranked them on income inequality, as reflected in the Gini coefficient.

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 ...