Low-income Americans have missed out on the wealth effects that have benefited the highest earners. The Fed, which has played a role in what economists refer to as the K-shaped economy, can’t easily ...

Discover who Simon Kuznets was, his Nobel-winning contributions to economics, and the significance of the Kuznets Curve in understanding economic inequality.

Paul Krugman details how the US traded a pro-worker Biden recovery for a K-shaped Trump freeze, widening the gap between rich ...

Students stand in line to enter their high school. Growing economic inequality widens achievement gaps and decreases opportunities to develop empathy. Credit: Allison Shelly for EDUimages The ...

David Madland disproves conservatives’ claims that Americans aren’t concerned about economic fairness. A fake check, made out to "The Top One Percent" for "$5 Billion" from the "99 Percent" sits ...

Income and wealth inequality in the United States is substantially higher than in almost any other developed nation, and it is on the rise, sparking an intensifying national debate. The 2008 global ...

The entrance at the 1912 Democratic National Convention held in Baltimore, Md. The theme of the presidential campaign of 1912 was economic inequality, but looking at the data, the problem is worse ...

There has recently been quite a bit of discussion concerning the growth of economic inequality. The size of the gap between the economic resources of those who have more money and those who have less ...

While the United States tries to control the coronavirus pandemic and recover from it, economic inequality is still a growing issue for Americans. This divide is even worse for people of color. And ...

Climate change is having a serious impact on economic growth across the world — and it’s worse for poor countries that already had a lot of catching up to do, according to a new study. Two Stanford ...

Once, laments over economic inequality were the sole purview of the left. But now the growing gap between the rich and the poor is a mainstream concern. “The distribution of income and wealth in the ...