Data: Federal Reserve Survey of Consumer Finances; Chart: Neil Irwin/Axios Middle- and lower-earners' inflation-adjusted ...
Introduction: Who Benefited from Market Liberalization?Since the 1980s, income inequality has widened significantly in both ...
Early morning magenta light illuminates clouds and the Moulton Barn on Mormon Row at the foot of the Grand Tetons near Jackson, Wyoming. Teton County, home to the affluent and famous Jackson Hole, has ...
Introduction: Have the Fruits of Economic Growth Reached the Entire Population?Since the 1980s, major countries around the ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's nearly impossible to read the news these days without running across mentions of economic inequality. So what is economic ...
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said America’s growing wealth gap shows what a "rigged economy" looks like, pointing to Tesla Inc. and Space Exploration Technologies Corp. CEO Elon Musk’s fortune as ...
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Two years ago this month, Thomas Piketty published his massive tome on inequality, Capital in the 21st Century. Embedded in the 696 pages of tables and analysis was a fairly simple idea: In rich ...