Taxes, benefits, and household data make America look more unequal than it is.

Early morning magenta light illuminates clouds and the Moulton Barn on Mormon Row at the foot of the Grand Tetons near Jackson, Wyoming. Teton County, home to the affluent and famous Jackson Hole, has ...

To discuss inequality in America, Emmanuel Saez, director of the Stone Center on Wealth and Income Inequality at the University of California–Berkeley, joined Bruce Meyer, professor at the Harris ...

If anyone is perplexed or surprised why Americans are so upset about the economy, they should look no further than the Income Distribution and Dynamics in America (IDDA) recent report by the Federal ...

Editor’s Note: Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) is a member of the House Appropriations Committee and ranking member of the Subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations. She serves as co-chair of ...

Bloomberg recently reported that Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg is now worth over $200 billion. He’s not alone. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Tesla founder Elon Musk, and LVMH founder Bernard Arnault are ...

Staff Writer at The New Yorker Evan Osnos joins Chris Jansing to share more on his new book “The Haves and Have-Yachts” and break down why wealth inequality in the U.S. is continuing to widen.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Teresa Ghilarducci Ph.D. is an Economics Professor. With the regularity of Halley’s comet, but more frequent occurrences, the ...

Ney is the author of American Inequality and was previously a macro policy strategist at the Federal Reserve Inequality seems to be improving in America. In the past 3 months, the Federal Reserve, EPA ...

A top issue of the 2020 presidential campaign, particularly among Democrats, is economic inequality. In the lore of capitalist America, the United States is a place where anyone can make it. But ...