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 ...

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 ...

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.

The idea that inequality needs to be reduced now almost goes without saying. I agree – but my training as a cognitive scientist warns me we should be careful how we go about it.

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.

“Inequality so mimics poverty in our minds that the United States of America . . . has a lot of features that better resemble a developing nation than a superpower,” he writes.

But even as inequality has risen, the federal system has become less progressive and therefore less able to reduce that inequality. In 1979 the richest 1 percent of Americans paid 37 percent of ...