People around the world see various factors as contributing to economic inequality in their country: A median of 60% across 36 countries say that rich people having too much political influence leads ...

Students stand in line to enter their high school. Growing economic inequality widens achievement gaps and decreases opportunities to develop empathy. Credit: Allison Shelly for EDUimages The ...

The specter of economic inequality is haunting nations across the globe, creating anxiety that reaches far beyond statistical charts and economic reports. From developed democracies to emerging ...

Differences in wealth and differences in income are the wrong ways to measure economic inequality, and going by either of them “dramatically overstates” the degree of inequality in the United States, ...

A frequent criticism of my brand of pro-growth, techno-optimist Up Wing economics is that it ignores inequality: Why boost productivity and economic growth if it only helps those already at the top?

In our 36-country survey, we asked respondents how large a problem various types of inequality are in their nation, including the gap between the rich and the poor, unequal rights for men and women, ...

According to data from the Congressional Budget Office, wealth inequality has been rising steeply in the United States over the last 30 years. This gap between rich and poor means that the top 1% of ...

To explore how public sentiment can influence minimum wage policies, we zoomed in on protests as a signal of public opinion across the US. We analysed data from over 130,000 protests across US ...