Photos show how the poor lived in cramped tenements while the rich built multiple mansions. The Gilded Age's wealth inequality eventually led to reforms in the Progressive Era.

Raising the minimum wage can help address economic inequality, but support has declined as the gap between rich and poor has increased, according to new research from the School of Management.

Promises, promises. A dubious Eric Adams slammed his main mayoral rival Zohran Mamdani’s socialist proposals as a bunch of “false promises” sure to harm the upstart’s lower-income supporters.

Present and future retirees should rejoice the rapidly increasing wealth inequality that Nvidia and Huang represent. That’s because inequality is the greatest gift to retirement of all.

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General Motors reports a 35% income slide in Q2 2025. Discover how a massive $1.1 billion hit from tariffs is impacting the automaker's profits.

Income inequality in Silicon Valley has reached alarming levels, with 15% of the region's wealth held by just nine households, according to a study.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — One of Alabama’s border states, Georgia, is considering dropping its state income tax. Tennessee and Florida have already eliminated their income taxes. Is that a future ...

More than three-quarters of Americans fear Social Security won't provide enough to live on when they retire, AARP study finds.

The Department of Public Service said the new program expands New York State's existing goal of holding low-income households’ energy utility bills to 6% or less of household income.