Wall Street Journal reporter Rolfe Winkler asked a colleague an interesting question on Twitter last week: "Do Fed policy discussions ever address record income inequality that is [a] direct result of ...

Justin lives! And he’s guest blogging for Ezra Klein this week. Check it out here. Yesterday he blogged about… whether or not income inequality helped cause the financial crisis. Sound familiar? In ...

The gap between rich and poor has reached historic highs. According to the World Inequality Report 2026, released in recent ...

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 16 (Reuters) - One of the most urgent questions in economics today is the connection between inequality and growth. That is because one of the big economic facts of our time is ...

The level of economic inequality in the city of Santiago in Brazil is evident along the border of a high-density, low-income favela neighborhood next to high-rise ...

October 3, 2017 [caption id="attachment_21564" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Unemployed day laborers in South Africa: the country has relatively high income, but ...

Six common-sense policies could help roll back economic inequality in America. Job seekers fill a room at the job fair. In the State of the Union, President Barack Obama must address the minimum wage ...

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One of the most urgent questions in economics today is the connection between inequality and growth. That is because one of the big economic facts of our time is the surge in income disparity, ...