The US is known as the land of equal opportunity, but as it turns out that thanks to income inequality, some parts have more upward mobility than others.

Data is cool, and visualizing it is even cooler, especially when it results in interesting maps such as Carnegie Mellon University’s new interactive map about income inequality around the world. Today ...

Purely geographical maps don’t tell the full story of cities. While they might lay out street grids, label boulevards and avenues, and demarcate buildings, they don’t expose the deeper currents that ...

Low income in California is defined by a different dollar amount depending on which county you live in. The California Department of Housing and Community Development Division released its latest ...

Wealth and income inequality are growing areas of concern. A report from Oxfam found that 82% of all wealth created throughout the world in 2017 went to the top 1%. 8 individuals literally own as much ...

Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications statistics bureau has publishedHeisei 20-year housing and land statistics surveyThere are data "household's annual income class (5 categories)", which ...

At the second presidential debate, one of the town hall participants posed a question to the candidates that surprised some journalists: “In what new ways to you intend to rectify the inequalities in ...

While justifying the disproportionate amount of stop-and-frisks in poor neighborhoods, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly told the Daily News that 97% of all shooting victims in NYC in 2012 "were black or ...

Did the Seattle City Council race between incumbent Richard Conlin and challenger Kshama Sawant reveal a deep fissure between rich and poor in Seattle? Looking at a map of the election results, it ...

The “Sand Castle” apartment complex in Far Rockaway, Queens. Out of its 917 affordable units, none are affordable to a median-income household of the area. Photo by scarlatti2004, levels adjusted / CC ...