Income Inequality

“The wealthy should remember that if we improve our society and our economy, then they, in effect, are among the main winners,” said J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon.

Miami Beach is the most unequal city on the list, scoring 61 percent—higher than the Gini score the World Bank gave to Haiti in 2012.

The top nations were praised for their multiculturalism, free higher education and commitment to human rights.

Philip Alston, a human rights expert, wrote in his new report that economic inequality "could be readily eliminated" with political will.

"Claire is one of my best friends, and I believe that we should be paid equally and fairly and there should be equality for all,” Matt Smith said.

“'What’s your zip code?’ is fast becoming one of the most important things your doctor could ask you.

Rent control policies could actually be making income inequality worse in gentrifying cities such as San Francisco, a new paper from Stanford University researchers argues.

White households in Boston, on the other hand, average a net worth of $247,500, or nearly 31,000 times more than African-American Bostonians.

The gap between wealthy and poor seniors is one of the widest in any nation in the Organization for Economic Cooperation.

A new form of feudalism is emerging in property ownership, in which the digital barons act as if they own every product, even after we have paid for them.

Warren Buffett has said that income in America is too concentrated in the pockets of the richest few.

People think they know everything about slavery in the United States. They don't.

New research reveals the answer isn't what we're often led to believe.

New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles all have neighborhood income inequality at least 20 percent larger than Washington’s.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies found the opposite was true of women's pay.

Inequality is the source of many problems facing the U.S., and the president can help eradicate the wealth gap.

Changing the definition of poverty ensures that we'll never fully "win" the war, a retired entrepreneur writes.

How power is channeled to owners of property (financial, physical and intellectual) at the expense of everyone else.

Many citizens in the U.K. and other wealthy countries suffer from a mental health problem.

Pooling public assets to create social wealth funds can help ensure economic justice for British citizens.

The pay data has been released under the Freedom of Information Act.

The Oxfam report says $7.6 billion is hidden away in tax havens as income inequality is reaching "new extremes."

Biden previously said income inequality is a “relatively new” issue for the Democratic presidential front-runner.

We’re paying too much for drugs, the Internet, mortgages, student loans, flights, food and health insurance.

The moral case: No one should be working full time and still remain in poverty.