The U.S. is more unequal than many other industrialized countries. Among 10 peer countries, the U.S. has the highest rate of ...

Consumer brands are adjusting to a two-tiered economy as the new normal. Yet there are signs that even high-income customers are under pressure.

It’s on the news. It’s mentioned extensively in many political circles. It’s being widely debated in academic circles. People, especially young, middle class people, notice it. Income inequality is ...

Income inequality dipped, more people had college degrees, fewer people moved to a different home and the share of Asian and Hispanic residents increased in the United States last year, according to ...

A canonical finding from earlier research is that the cross-sectional variance of income increases sharply with age Deaton and Paxson (1994). However, the trend in this age profile is not separately ...

Although average real income in the United States increased by more than a third between 1979 and 2007, not all workers benefited equally. In each of the 50 states, income growth among the top 1% of ...

Many who talk about stopping pandemics focus on more labs or faster vaccines, but a new report demonstrates that high inequality is fuelling pandemics and increasing vulnerability.

A new study published in Nature Mental Health has found that children growing up in states with higher income inequality show measurable differences in brain structure and function that may contribute ...