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 ...

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 ...

Well, it does dominate our political debate. The economist said it is universally accepted that income inequality is high in the West and rising rapidly. What we show is that if you go back and ...

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. This growing divide is ...

The ratification of the 16th Amendment in 1913, authorizing a federal income tax, emerged from a confluence of economic inequality, populist discontent and the limitations of relying on tariffs ...

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 ...

Income inequality is a measure of the income gap between highest- and lowest-earning households. It has long been a public concern in the United States, especially after the economic upheaval brought ...

The massive rise in income inequality since the 1960s, they argue, is mostly a statistical illusion based on a series of methodological errors. Piketty, Saez, and Zucman found that the top one ...

President Joe Biden has proposed a major change to tackle income inequality head-on, but it comes with its own set of challenges. The rich are getting richer, to the detriment of Social Security ...

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.