Editor’s Note: We’ve been looking at inequality quite a bit lately. In the piece ‘Land of the Free, Home of the Poor,’ we used a trio of pie charts broken down into five quintiles to illustrate ...

It has become fashionable in recent years to downplay the growth of income and wealth inequality in the developed world, especially in the United States — and also its consequences. It’s not ...

An interesting set of some 40 charts depicting poverty levels, inequality, and income distributions covering 191 countries between 1970 and 2006 in a paper from MIT's Maxim Pinkovskiy and Columbia's ...

If you aren't morally outraged by the idea of some Americans having ludicrously more money than others and the death of the American dream, then perhaps you will be moved to see that income inequality ...

In a March 18 post on his “Economics One” blog, John B. Taylor published the very illuminating chart reproduced below. The chart, which is based upon IRS data complied by economist Emmanuel Saez, ...

In this week’s magazine, I’ve got a lengthy piece about “Capital in the Twenty-first Century,” a new book about rising inequality by Thomas Piketty, a French economist, that is sparking a lot of ...

We'll keep the income inequality vibe going from today's Morning Coffee post with this fascinating chart put together by the folks at the Pew Research Center. You'll be shocked to discover (not) that ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Over at Bloomberg, Kris Warner follows up on yesterday’s report on U.S. unionization ...

Even early on in the pandemic, it was clear that the economic effects of COVID-19 shutdowns would not affect everyone equally. Instead, they highlighted stark inequalities in our world, with some ...

Editor's Note: We've been looking at inequality quite a bit lately. In the piece 'Land of the Free, Home of the Poor,' we used a trio of pie charts broken down into five quintiles to illustrate ...

It has become fashionable in recent years to downplay the growth of income and wealth inequality in the developed world, especially in the United States — and also its consequences. It’s not ...