The nation's wealthiest residents saw their billions grow even larger in the years following the COVID-19 pandemic due to policies from the Federal Reserve that have deepened the chasm of income ...

Silicon Valley Index: Income inequality is up 44%. Silicon Valley’s staggering income divide has widened twice as fast as the state and national average over the past decade, reflecting a tech ...

A team of researchers from the London School of Economics U.S. Centre argued in a May analysis that "states with greater income inequality are more likely to report more COVID-19 cases and ...

Charts of top-income shares appear to confirm the story: since 1980, the top one percent’s slice of pretax income has surged, especially in the United States and the United Kingdom. Add the ...

More lower-income households are using gains made from crypto investing to take out mortgages, according to a report by research economists at the United States Treasury. In low-income households ...

There are competing narratives about artificial intelligence’s impact on inequality. Some argue AI will exacerbate economic disparities, while others suggest it could reduce inequality by primarily ...

The big picture: In 2023, the national median sales price for existing single-family homes was 4.9 times the median household income, researchers from Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies found.