Been eating a bit too much ice cream this sweltering summer? Thinking about going on a bit of a diet? Well, imagine yourself counting calories but exempting anything with sugar from all your counting.

Green, a Wall Street investor, created a buzz in late 2025 by arguing that the U.S. poverty line should be jacked up to ...

Inequality is, without a doubt, the hot topic in econ circles these days. Economics conference seminars on the subject are standing-room-only. Columns and blog posts about inequality are widely read ...

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 ...

If every hour of those chores were worth $17, the typical wage for a housekeeper, that unpaid work would be worth roughly $39 ...

A new paper in The Review of Economic Studies, published by Oxford University Press, introduces a novel measure of inequality. Under this new measure the United States is rated one of the most unequal ...

Has income inequality got worse in the last 20 years? According to the most recent data, South Africa has the highest income inequality in the world, with a Gini coefficient of around 0.67. The Gini ...

Income inequality Americans experienced as children has been linked to their health outcomes as adults, according to a new study. “Children growing up in a period of rising income inequality seem to ...

According to Mark Twain, “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know that ain’t so.” “The Myth of American Inequality,” by Phil Gramm, Robert Ekelund and John Early, ...