Income inequality in the United States has become a defining issue of our time, with the gap between the rich and the poor expanding significantly over the past few decades.

That accounts for about half of the rise in income inequality among households between 1980 and 2020, researchers from the Federal Reserve Banks of Dallas and St. Louis and Haverford College found.

How do researchers measure income inequality? Common economic measurements, like GDP growth, tell us how fast the economic pie is growing. But they don’t tell us how the pie is getting distributed.

Income inequality in the United States expanded from 2017 to 2018, with several heartland states among the leaders of the increase, even though several wealthy coastal states still had the most ...

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 from Drexel University has taken a ...

Columbia is one of the worst cities for income inequality in the U.S., a new report shows. According to the report by GoBankingRates, the South Carolina city ranked fourth among the 50 U.S. cities ...

Income inequality differs widely across Asian origin groups One of the most common measures of income inequality is the “90/10 ratio.” This metric reflects the ratio of household income of those at ...