According to a familiar saying, academic disputes are so vicious precisely because the stakes are so low. But in a scholarly battle over inequality, the stakes are rather higher. Research by a trio of ...

For many years people have puzzled over why countries that get richer don't seem to get happier. Now, researchers have an answer. Money can't buy you happiness, right? That's the assumption we've ...

A behind-the-scenes blog about research methods at Pew Research Center. For our latest findings, visit pewresearch.org. At Pew Research Center, we study people’s economic lives — from who counts as ...

OVER A DECADE before thousands of protesters gathered in Zuccotti Park in New York in 2011, a little-known researcher in France sat down to write about income inequality in a new way. “The focus of ...

In the midst of steadily declining poverty and unemployment, the income gap in the United States continues to widen. Income inequality has reached the highest level in five decades, according to a ...

The above funds have adopted a managed distribution plan. Under a managed distribution plan, to the extent that sufficient investment income is not available monthly, the fund will distribute ...

The increase in U.S. income inequality since 1970 largely reflects gains made by households in the top 20% of the income distribution. Estimates suggest that households outside this group have ...

The COVID-19 pandemic is having a deep effect on living standards around the world. A recent Pew Research Center analysis found that the global middle class encompassed 54 million fewer people in 2020 ...