If someone can’t afford to be in the stock market, the one thing they used to be able to rely on was building equity in a ...

The faster our world heats up, the faster the divide between the cooled and the cooked will widen. Ultimately, it is ...

A two-day seminar hosted by the Emengini Institute for Comparative Global Studies will look at issues of inequality, and ways ...

A film by Richard Master and Toby Hubner examines America's growing wealth gap, with proceeds from its Bethlehem premiere ...

James Poterba is the Mitsui Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the President and CEO of ...

This video explores the inequality problem nobody likes to talk about,the hidden barriers that affect opportunity, power, and ...

Hawaiʻi has a long history of civil rights that extends to many different groups and peoples before the Illegal overthrow of ...

Farming changed the way people lived thousands of years ago. It has long been believed that inequality arrived with ...

But inequality hurts the richest, too — at least that’s what the philosopher Ingrid Robeyns argues in “Limitarianism,” a book coming out early next year.

Everyone knows that inequality has gotten out of hand in the United States. Thanks largely to the work of three now-famous economists—Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez, and Gabriel Zucman—it’s ...

Had inflation been zero, the wealth-inequality ratio would have risen even higher, to 385. Instead, the debt devaluation resulting from inflation led to a 76% increase in U.S. median wealth over ...

Professor Goldburn P. Maynard Jr. of the Indiana University Kelley School of Business discusses the U.S. tax code’s effect on wealth inequality and how race has shaped the distribution of wealth.