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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most voters are worried about the problem of income inequality, and the Democratic Party has a slight advantage on the issue.

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 ...

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 ...

According to the Pew Research Center, 8-in-10 registered voters say the economy will be very important to their vote in the 2024 presidential election. The state of the economy and inflation are the ...