It’s a bad news, good news scenario for the U.S. economy and budget outlook. Income inequality is rising again after subsiding somewhat after the Covid-19 pandemic. But as a result, income tax ...

Learn why the Palma Ratio offers a straightforward alternative to the Gini coefficient for measuring economic inequality.

Traditional metrics like the Gini Index and U-3 unemployment rate understate true economic inequality and labor market weakness. Growing wealth inequality and understated unemployment threaten ...

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 ...

Douglas County does better than the national average on unemployment, child poverty, flu vaccinations and more, but it has more work to do on housing issues and income inequality. That’s according to ...

Income inequality is one of the most important measures of economic health, social justice and quality of life. More reliably trackable than wealth inequality, which was recently given a gloomy report ...

The U.S. economy is more dependent than ever on the lavish spending of the wealthiest, The Wall Street Journal recently reported. The top 10% of earners (households making $250,000 per year or more) ...

Income inequality in the United States has become a defining issue of our time, with the gap between the rich and the poor expanding significantly over the past few decades. This growing divide is not ...

Income inequality in the United States has looked about the same for years now: The richest 10% of households earn more than a third of all income, and the poorest earn less than 2%. In Minnesota, ...

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 ...