In any capitalist economy, some level of income inequality is to be expected — but when the gap between the rich and the poor ...

Rome, with a population of around 75 million, had an average income equivalent to about 2.25 times the subsistence minimum — ...

More so than perhaps every other wealthy, highly developed country, the United States stands out on the world stage for its ...

If there is no difference between these two, the Gini coefficient becomes 0, equivalent to perfect equality, while if they are very far apart, the Gini coefficient becomes 1, which corresponds to ...

Analysis: How disasters like Hurricane Ian can make inequality worse Research on Hurricane ... government survey has captured the LGBTQ+ economic experience.

We also document how extreme economic inequality contributes to corruption and mismanagement of public resources. We push governments to end abusive policies that contribute to poverty ...

Two narratives have emerged in the economic literature on technology ... If we assume that robots are almost perfect substitutes for human labor, the good news is that output per person rises. The bad ...

That diminishment of economic power, tantamount to invisibility, isn’t a housing problem. It’s an inequality problem, and a humanity problem. Reducing zoning restrictions can help, but not enough.

Bringing prosperity to a much higher proportion of people in an economy is not complicated and it was established a very long ...

In a Monday-morning appearance on CNBC, Evercore founder Roger Altman praised the Fed for delivering "nearly perfect" economic conditions, citing strength in equities, profits, and employment.

as well as the level of income inequality among residents. These four comprehensive metrics are indicators of more than just economic opportunity in a given state; they intersect with employment ...