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 ...

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 inequality looks at the distribution of assets, such as property, stocks and saving. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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 ...

The effect has more than outweighed the growth in inequality in much of the rich world, and almost kept pace with it even in ...

When a president calls for a 10 % cap on credit‑card interest rates, it commands attention across markets, policy ...

A new study published in Social Psychological and Personality Science has found that rising income inequality is associated with an increase in the number of hours people work. This relationship ...

Income from streams other than employment will be factored into the Government’s annual household income trends report going ...

Figure 1. Conceptual diagram of the 4 emission components that constitute the multidimensional emissions profile (MEP) framework, and their relationships with production-based account (PBA) and ...