Income Inequality

It's long past due for our elected representatives to level the playing field between the rich and the rest of us and to invest in rural people and places.

Data shows Republicans and Democrats alike have abandoned working-class voters. Biden wants to win them back.

Economic strife exacerbated by the war in Ukraine could present new trials and tribulations for world leaders as they seek closure to the conflict.

I call on Congress to follow the lead of local governments across the country. If we want to ensure a stable future for all our citizens, a guaranteed income for everyone who needs it represents the best path forward.

"I didn't hear the Republicans worry about the deficit when they provided a trillion dollars in tax breaks to the 1%, large corporations," Bernie Sanders said.

New poverty data reveals the effectiveness of pandemic aid programs that are now expired. For poor Americans, building on that success is a matter of life and death.

"We estimate that inflation in 2021 will require the average U.S. household to spend around $3,500 more," a new study states.

"Global inequalities seem to be about as great today as they were at the peak of Western imperialism in the early 20th century," said the World Inequality Report.

Tax Department analyst Kathy Strombeck said that "a drop of 5% in average income per return is not nearly as bad as we anticipated."

The 2021 global Gallup report ranked countries in terms of both positive and negative emotions—including sadness, enjoyment, smiling and feelings of respect.

From tire changers to cashiers, these are the jobs with the lowest paychecks in Boston.

Average U.S. rent prices are higher than real estate experts had predicted pre-pandemic for this summer.

American politicians have ignored domestic mass shootings and skyrocketing income inequality, the Chinese Communist Party's official media outlet wrote Monday.

Aside from the necessity of having conversations about climate change's short-term consequences, if humanity is to continue to survive and flourish, we must keep the long-term future in mind.

During a recent interview with with the civic media organization A Starting Point (ASP), Beyer was asked what areas of the current U.S. tax system need the most improvement.

Learn which county in every state has the lowest household income and see how your area compares with the rest

The best evidence available today shows that the growing national debt contributes to massive problems that many on the Left and Right care about.

Aid tied to the pandemic is a start, but we are not looking to just go back to normal. If 2020 was about exposing the problem, 2021 is about finding the solution.

Third parties may rarely win election to office, but they do serve to introduce the new ideas that the duopoly candidates cannot.

Morning Consult found in a survey of more than 2,400 people, that Trump receives lower support when asked on the phone than online among those making $75,000 or more each year.

A new study from the Urban Institute found adults with incomes below the federal poverty level were nearly 19 percent less likely to receive stimulus payments. Nearly seven in 10 Americans received payments from the CARES Act.

Guaranteed income is a powerful tool to fight structural inequities afflicting American society.

Did Sanders' campaign fail or succeed? Expanded health care, a higher minimum wage, free college: His ideas may have outgrown the need for Sanders himself and his purist approach.

A proposed California law would give almost every adult in the state $1,000 per month, similar to the universal basic income plan of former presidential candidate Andrew Yang.

While among the most ambitious plans to tackle inequality beyond income, Elizabeth Warren's tax proposal has produced research casting doubt on some of its largest promises.

These survey respondents could be part of a slightly more progressive coalition of Republicans who also care about climate change, immigration and access to contraception, reports show.

New York State enacted a law Monday that bans employers from asking prospective employees how much money they earned in previous jobs.

Former Clinton Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers this week railed against the so-called "wealth tax" proposed by progressive Democrats, warning that such "anti-business" policies could have provoked more anti-Semitism from 20th-century business leaders.

"The goal of this income inequality tax is not just to raise more revenue. It is to send a message to corporate America: stop paying your workers inadequate wages while CEOs make outrageous compensation packages."

Fans chanting "equal pay" during the U.S. women's national soccer team's World Cup victory reinvigorated calls to match the salaries of the professional men's league.