If you hang around the inequality debate long enough, wading through the many smart proposals to reduce the income gap, it all starts to seem kind of doable. We could make a real dent in inequality ...

Earnings inequality in America has increased since 1979 — that much we know. But why and what to do about it is murky — in part because we’re not all talking about the same group of people when we ...

From time to time, you’ll hear economists argue that the best long-term solution to economic inequality is education. There is an enormous, and growing, pay gap between those with a college degree and ...

As Harvard analyst, Deval Patrick, truthfully pointed out once: “When there’s inequity in learning, it’s usually baked into life.” The quality of education we receive as children and young adults ...

You might consider America's vast wealth inequality, vividly illustrated in this viral video, to be offensive, infuriating, or irrelevant. But it is not terribly mysterious. Rich people have more ...

About a month into another school year marred by the COVID-19 pandemic, educators and families are facing renewed anxiety over “learning loss” — the idea that time away from in-person schooling will ...

Paul Constant is a writer at Civic Ventures and the cohost of the "Pitchfork Economics" podcast. He spoke with professor Oded Galor, who wrote a book about the history of wealth inequality. Galor said ...

How do you solve a problem like inequality? A new book suggests how the struggle against inequality might survive the defeat of Ed Miliband. By Max Harris Anthony Atkinson’s new book, Inequality: What ...