Yes, Donald Trump is a threat to democracy. But the far bigger menace is the monstrous growth in wealth concentration over ...

"What's actually been happening is that the Fed has been driving income inequality. And, I think for a long time, Republicans were sort of in denial – not just Republicans, but sort of free ...

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 has historically been a destabilizing force in democratic countries — and currently, the U.S. has some of the highest levels of income inequality in the developed world.

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.

Inequality inhibits that potential, Durlauf said. There are many ways to measure income inequality, including comparing people from different income percentiles and assessing how far away a ...

To find where this spread is increasing – and where it's highest – SmartAsset ranked 96 of the largest U.S. cities based on the percentage increase in income inequality between the highest ...

The Economic Policy Institute analyzed inflation-adjusted earnings from hourly wages, salaries, commissions, bonuses and stock options, and there’s been a decline in income inequality in recent ...

The level of economic inequality in the city of Santiago in Brazil is evident along the border of a high-density, low-income favela neighborhood next to high-rise ...

A certain kind of politician loves to rail about income inequality and the corporate greed and injustice that supposedly cause it. It won’t surprise anyone who’s ever held a job in the private ...

A lot of folks in Seattle are doing very well. Census data released this month showed the median income for city households hit $121,000, up about 18% since before the pandemic, when the median ...