Thousands of fast food workers took to the streets this week, staging strikes in protest over their low pay. In states where the minimum wage has not been raised above the federal level, if a worker ...

Several factors help explain why economist Thomas Piketty's groundbreaking new book on economic inequality has been such a surprise hit. First, "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" is based on an ...

The Golden Globe Awards on Sunday provided a useful snapshot of the limitations of the #MeToo movement. Viewers gazed into a monochromatic protest against the scourge of harassment, with uniformly ...

Income inequality theory is a lot like ancient astronaut theory, in that in order to believe in it, you have to disregard a lot of evidence to the contrary. Let's start with the most basic premise of ...

The United States has the highest income gap in the developed world, and it's affecting how kids do in school, new research suggests. A new study reports that 10-year-olds' scores on standardized math ...

Between 2008 and 2013, global inequality fell for the first time since the industrial revolution. The historic fall in global inequality was driven by robust growth in average incomes in populous ...

COVID-19 WAS never going to be good for the poor. At first, however, the disease was not associated with rising inequality. Richer economies tended to suffer larger declines in GDP per person than ...