A new study published in Social Psychological and Personality Science has found that rising income inequality is associated ...

Taxes, benefits, and household data make America look more unequal than it is.

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

The gap between rich and poor has reached historic highs. According to the World Inequality Report 2026, released in recent weeks, the richest 10% of the global population now receive 53% of all ...

Federal tax and program cuts adopted last year will hit households in 2026, boosting inequality in the city, new report says.

Income inequality is sometimes considered to be a problem plaguing wealthy American communities like San Francisco, where the gap between rich and poor has been compared with that of developing ...

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 ...

Income inequality in the United States has looked about the same for years now: The richest 10% of households earn more than a third of all income, and the poorest earn less than 2%. In Minnesota, ...

Global inequality, after widening for decades, has stabilized. The share of the world’s income captured by the top 1 percent has shrunk since its peak on the eve of the financial crisis. The bottom ...

Over 68% of those in the bottom 10% income group remained in the same group. Among the top 10%, 58.9% also stayed in place.