Income Inequality

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.

Trump's plans to cut taxes and raise trade barriers, if enacted, might give a short-term income boost to some workers but would not deliver the long-term growth, Nobel Prize-winning economist Angus Deaton said.

Building walls has rarely achieved the intended effect.

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

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 U.S. ranks in the bottom third of rich countries when it comes to income inequality among children.

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.

Not really. But they don't fare too well, either.

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.

Income inequality, gun control, Black Lives Matter—important issues the candidates should address.

Workplace gender differences persist, but that doesn't mean something is deeply amiss in employment markets.

Raising the top income tax to 50 percent would mean paying $110,968 more for the top 1 percent.

The market has been tilted in favor of moneyed interests while workers have lost bargaining power.

The city of Ogden, together with its neighboring communities, has the narrowest wealth gap among America's largest metropolitan statistical areas.

Kathy Edin and H. Luke Shaefer's account of welfare reform omits some key statistics.

Reform dramatically increased the number of households with children on less than $2 a day per person.

The pope soars stressing humility, helping poor. Can Trump resist taking a shot?

The nation's economic expansion has not led to gains for many Americans, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's annual estimates.

Social mobility is becoming more difficult and meritocracy is failing to work.

A "Second Gilded Age" has brought levels of inequality not seen since labor unions first organized.