A new report from the AFL-CIO adds another point to a growing pool of data highlighting income and wealth inequality in ...

Income and wealth inequality are entrenched forms of social injustice. They exist to varying degrees in every country of the world and are the inevitable consequence of the unjust, pervasive socio ...

As inequality grows and automation threatens employment, many nations are providing citizens with unconditional payments.

Birth of the income tax: Economic inequality then and now President Donald Trump waves as he boards Air Force One, Tuesday, April 29, 2025, at Joint Base Andrews, Md. Photo by: Alex Brandon / AP ...

Six decades of civil-rights efforts haven’t budged it, and the usual prescriptions—including reparations—offer no lasting ...

Some Londoners say they're frustrated, but not surprised, by the revelations from a Statistics Canada report showing the gap ...

The Founders would be horrified by these developments because they believed great wealth in politics would corrupt and destroy the republic. Those beliefs were shaped by a range of influences: the ...

42. Hawaii Bottom 20% average income: $21,178 Top 20% average income: $310,254 Top 5% average income: $526,148 Top 5% share of wealth: 20.5% Gini index (0-1): 0.4495 43. Wyoming Bottom 20% average ...

Today, the median 401 (k) balance for top-decile earners is about 10 times that of middle-income participants. 4 Indeed, plan ...

Model simulations suggest that with strong complementarity, high-wage earners might experience a disproportionate increase in their earnings, thereby intensifying labor income inequality. This channel ...

The clamour within Labour to introduce a wealth tax in a bid to balance the books is continuing to grow ahead of a ...