Income inequality in the United States has become a defining issue of ... but also diminishing job opportunities and wage growth for American workers. This shift has benefited corporations and ...

This volume refines and extends the economic history literature on economic inequality in the United States. Economic ...

Billionaires saw their wealth increase across the last four years due to policies put forth by the Federal Reserve, leading ...

Suppose you then imagine all of these electoral delegates from all the states as a single set of American voters. The chart shows a conventional measure of income inequality, the Gini coefficient ...

is a summary measure of income inequality representing how income distribution varies compared with an equal outcome. States with the lowest Gini index figures, based on data from the U.S. Census ...

Instead, the strong correlation is between income inequality and mortality, rather than between mean income and mortality. The southern states of the US—Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and ...

From expensive Connecticut rent and high annual income to the number of impoverished residents, stark disparities and ...

Last week, President Donald Trump used wording to suggest that the federal income ... by the American people specifically because tariffs were consumption and a tool to increase income inequality ...

The economic opportunity subcategory informs the best states for opportunity ... insecurity and median household income, as well as the level of income inequality among residents.