In America, the gap between the rich and the poor has widened significantly, with states exhibiting stark disparities in ...

To discuss inequality in America, Emmanuel Saez, director of the Stone Center on Wealth and Income Inequality at the University of California–Berkeley, joined Bruce Meyer, professor at the Harris ...

The collective wealth of America’s top 10 richest people ballooned by $698 billion in the past year, supercharged by ...

The wealth gap in the United States isn't just wide—it's a chasm. The top 1 percent, about 1.3 million households, hold $52 trillion in net worth. The bottom 50 percent, 66 million households, scrape ...

As 45 million Americans lost their jobs, U.S. billionaires made $584 billion. The novel coronavirus pandemic has only exacerbated income inequality, experts say, stretching the racial wealth gap in ...

It’s not every day one high school dropout gets to challenge a billionaire dropout, and likely the only dropout ever to reach outer space. I got this challenge idea reading in a recent edition of The ...

In conducting this research, Joe LaBriola received support from the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics at the University of Michigan, the National Science Foundation, the ...

Contributing columnist Peter Johnson writes that wealth inequality is growing. America needs to invest in fairness and the dignity of work. Getty Images / Getty Images Rev. Peter Johnson Our nation is ...