The Joint Center launches a Tax Policy Advisory Committee to address economic inequality in Black communities affected by ...

Arkansas ranked eighth out of 50 states for income inequality, with the top 5% of the population holding a 23.37% share of ...

Jessica Munson, Ph.D., worked with an interdisciplinary team of researchers to analyze house size distributions with findings were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS ...

France's poverty rate reached 15.4% in 2023, its highest level since records began in 1996, according to data from the ...

The U.S. may have the highest level of income inequality of the G7 nations, but new research suggests that disparity has actually stabilized over the last decade, thanks to rapid growth in wages ...

Financing is the engine of development. And right now, this engine is sputtering,” U.N. Secretary General António Guterres ...

As Congress debates tax cuts and safety-net reforms in the One Big Beautiful Bill, a major line of attack against the proposal is that it would worsen inequality, which, to hear some critics tell it, ...

Today, the median 401 (k) balance for top-decile earners is about 10 times that of middle-income participants. Indeed, plan participation, balance amounts, and investment outcomes remain skewed toward ...

Views on why reducing inequality should be a top priority for the federal government differ somewhat by party. For example, 89% of Democrats who say reducing inequality should be a top priority say ...

Second, even if economic inequality is not a problem in and of itself, it can still have bad effects. Great disparities of income and wealth, of the kind we see in the United States today, can ...

Soaring temperatures in Aussie homes are creating significant issues for the health of renters and housing sustainability – ...