It also explores trends in income and wealth inequality. Pew Research Center does research to help the public, the media and ...

Since 2019, a growing share among those who say there’s too much inequality think the economic system needs to be completely rebuilt to address it.

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

CEO Scott Kirby says the US needs a national wealth tax and inheritance taxes nearing 100% for certain estates to address ...

Simply defined, income inequality is the gap between the incomes or earnings of individuals at different levels of the income distribution. A typical way to measure income inequality is to first ...

Introduction: Who Benefited from Market Liberalization?Since the 1980s, income inequality has widened significantly in both ...

When economists track inequality, they typically focus on income and spending. But a significant share of the services that families actually consume – meals cooked at home, child care, housecleaning ...

You can’t talk about money without discussing the financial realities of different demographics. Today, the average white family still has 10 times the wealth of Black families. And though the gender ...

A new Kaiser Family Foundation survey reports that health-insurance premiums rose by a “modest” 3% in 2013. Even more modest, however, was the 2.3% growth of workers’ earnings last year. These figures ...

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 ...

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

When economists track inequality, they typically focus on income and spending. But a significant share of the services that families actually consume—meals cooked at home, child care, housecleaning ...