Data: Federal Reserve Survey of Consumer Finances; Chart: Neil Irwin/Axios Middle- and lower-earners' inflation-adjusted ...

The income share of the top 1% has risen from 9% to 16%—deciphering structural changes in capital, labor, and tax systems ...

Introduction: Have the Fruits of Economic Growth Reached the Entire Population?Since the 1980s, major countries around the ...

Income inequality is one of the most important measures of economic health, social justice and quality of life. More reliably trackable than wealth inequality, which was recently given a gloomy report ...

While evidence has long shown that higher income inequality is associated with poorer population health outcomes, a new study from researchers at the University of Rhode Island College of Health ...

AI use in the workforce could see the wage gap shrink, while worsening inequality.

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 ...

U.S. income inequality grew in 2021 for the first time in a decade, according to data the Census Bureau released in September 2022. That might sound surprising, since the most accurate measure of the ...

Across 41 states, the bottom 20% make less than $20,000 on average. Meanwhile, the top 20% earn more than $250,000 in 25 states — accounting for half of America. While it's not exactly a new ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Jordan McGillis is economics editor at City Journal. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion on CNN. Income inequality is starker than ever — or so ...

For the first time in Social Security's 90-year history, we witnessed the average monthly retired-worker benefit surpass $2,000. Additionally, the 2.7% cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) passed along to ...