The president has pitched his trade policies at workers who feel left behind by globalization. But that doesn’t mean trade ...

Huge executive pay packages are a prime driver of income inequality. Shareholds and the public deserve to know about how CEOs ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The argument about "income inequality" is as nonsensical as the argument about "American women typically earned X cents for every dollar earned by men." Both of these arguments exclude all other ...

Income inequality differs widely across Asian origin groups One of the most common measures of income inequality is the “90/10 ratio.” This metric reflects the ratio of household income of those at ...

According to some measures, U.S. income inequality hasn’t meaningfully grown over the last decade, the very period in which it has become such a potent cultural and political meme.

A ccording to a familiar saying, academic disputes are so vicious precisely because the stakes are so low. But in a scholarly battle over inequality, the stakes are rather higher. Research by a ...