The top wealth holders outpace everyone else.

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 ...

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 ...

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 has taken a deeper look at the ...

AMES, Iowa – Job growth in the retail and service sector has not matched the wages of manufacturing and other middle-skill level jobs lost over the past decade in Iowa. The difference has contributed ...

Wealth league tables promise clarity, ranking countries by how fairly they share prosperity. Yet when those scorecards label the Netherlands and the USA as outliers, they often obscure more than they ...

Branko Milanović’s century-spanning intellectual history of inequality in economic theory reveals the ideological reasons behind the field’s resurgence in the last few decades. Branko Milanovic, 2017.

AI boom drives Taiwan growth while widening inequality and social rifts Chip windfall enriches TSMC while households grapple ...