Editor’s Note: We’ve been looking at inequality quite a bit lately. In the piece ‘Land of the Free, Home of the Poor,’ we used a trio of pie charts broken down into five quintiles to illustrate ...

It has become fashionable in recent years to downplay the growth of income and wealth inequality in the developed world, especially in the United States — and also its consequences. It’s not ...

If you aren't morally outraged by the idea of some Americans having ludicrously more money than others and the death of the American dream, then perhaps you will be moved to see that income inequality ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Over at Bloomberg, Kris Warner follows up on yesterday’s report on U.S. unionization ...

We'll keep the income inequality vibe going from today's Morning Coffee post with this fascinating chart put together by the folks at the Pew Research Center. You'll be shocked to discover (not) that ...

Last Friday, the Center for American Progress, the center-left think tank founded by Bill Clinton’s former chief of staff John Podesta, held a conference to launch its new Washington Center for ...

In this week’s magazine, I’ve got a lengthy piece about “Capital in the Twenty-first Century,” a new book about rising inequality by Thomas Piketty, a French economist, that is sparking a lot of ...

Even early on in the pandemic, it was clear that the economic effects of COVID-19 shutdowns would not affect everyone equally. Instead, they highlighted stark inequalities in our world, with some ...

Taxes, benefits, and household data make America look more unequal than it is.

Editor's Note: We've been looking at inequality quite a bit lately. In the piece 'Land of the Free, Home of the Poor,' we used a trio of pie charts broken down into five quintiles to illustrate ...

It has become fashionable in recent years to downplay the growth of income and wealth inequality in the developed world, especially in the United States — and also its consequences. It’s not ...