Income inequality between countries may have eased in recent decades, but the gap within nations continues to widen. Take France: Its poverty rate clocked 15.4 percent in 2023, the highest since ...

Discover Stiglitz's insights on how COVID-19 exposed health and economic inequalities and the potential backlash against ...

Wealth and income inequality are projected to increase in Connecticut under President Donald Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill.' ...

Does living in an unequal society make people unhappy? Not necessarily, reveals the largest study ever conducted on the ...

The richest 10 percent of the world’s population now owns three-quarters of all personal wealth, according to the newly released World Inequality Report 2026. Income is not much different, where the ...

A new study published in Social Psychological and Personality Science has found that rising income inequality is associated with an increase in the number of hours people work. This relationship ...

Trump’s 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act has disadvantaged middle-income, low-income and Black taxpayers in several ways. It’s harder for middle-class Black people to get a mortgage than it is for ...

The rich are getting poorer, and the poor are getting richer. Income inequality has been steadily decreasing on the Treasure Coast, according to a TCPalm analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data of Gini ...

While the U.S. economy outperforms other rich countries, it doesn’t feel that way for many Americans. Forty-two percent of Americans don’t have an emergency savings fund, while 40% can’t afford a ...

The 2025 G20 Global Inequality Report was a timely attempt to address inequality. However, one must be critically aware that ...

The divergence seems to be due to higher income groups benefiting disproportionately from policy changes and also because ...