WHEREAS, Income inequality has grown more rampant and pervasive as anti-worker, anti-union, anti-small business corporations ...

NBC4 will air a special edition of “The Conversation” on Wednesday, June 18, marking five years since the show began its ...

We explore factors causing inequality, the role of debt, and finding an optimal level of inequality (because you do need some ...

If economic inequality increases within a country, the risk of civil war breaking out grows. This is the finding from a study ...

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 ...

Rio de Janeiro’s favela of Rocinha sees makeshift dwellings spiral down the mountain, all but crashing into the turquoise ...

Across 41 states, the bottom 20% make less than $20,000 on average. Meanwhile, the top 20% earn more than $250,000 in 25 ...

While the federal government has made gains on diversity and equity in the public service, inequities persist when it comes to pay, a new Treasury Board report says.

Most Americans think there is too much economic inequality in the country these days, and about half say addressing inequality requires significant changes to the economic system. Even so, among those ...

But is economic inequality really what bothers us? An influential essay published in 1987 by the philosopher Harry Frankfurt suggests that we have misidentified the problem. Professor Frankfurt ...

Heather Boushey and Adam S. Hersh discuss ways that the strength of the middle class and the level of societal inequality both affect economic growth and stability. To say that the middle class is ...