Income inequality between countries may have eased in recent decades, but the gap within nations continues to widen. Take France: Its poverty rate clocked 15.4 percent in 2023, th ...

While the U.S. economy outperforms other rich countries, it doesn’t feel that way for many Americans. Forty-two percent of Americans don’t have an emergency savings fund, while 40% can’t afford a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Christian Weller is an economist focused on retirement inequality. The Federal Reserve recently released new household data in two ...

I care about economic inequality. I teach a class on it. I wrote a book about it. Yet, recently, two different arguments have popped up with a seemingly similar conclusion: economic inequality hasn’t ...

Changes in overall economic conditions may affect real household income levels and also how income is distributed across households. Analysis using annual data from 1967 to 2023 shows that the adverse ...

Targeting the highest-yielding asset classes can leave investors exposed to significant market risk. Here are tips to ...

The US economy exits 2025 with one phrase defining consumers: K-shaped. In 2025, the division between the economic haves and have-nots widened, with sentiment souring as those in the middle of the ...

This article examines the relationship between intra-couple income distribution and subjective wellbeing, using nationally representative data from Hungary. We show that the association between the ...

Editor's note: The Institute for Business in Global Society (BiGS) invited economist Anton Korinek to speak about the impact of artificial intelligence on the economy during our AI in Society seminar ...

Several studies by Thomas Piketty and his colleagues purporting to show that income inequality has increased dramatically in the United States over the last 60 years have influenced the public’s views ...