People with lower incomes are driving less and devoting more of their budgets to transport as gas prices soar.

New Federal Reserve Bank of New York data show that lower-income Americans, despite sharply reducing gas use after the Iran war, are spending more due to soaring prices. Wealthier households, in ...

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Income inequality is one of the most important measures of economic health, social justice and quality of life. More reliably trackable than wealth inequality, which was recently given a gloomy report ...

Changing course on decades of deepening inequality requires bold action and vision. The U.S. is in the grips of an inequality emergency. Decades of deliberate, regressive policy choices have rigged ...

The mean reversion for home prices continues. Median and average home prices were down 5.9% and 5.1% respectively in October. Closed sales and contracts were relatively flat during a period that ...

Given the escalating scale of inequality in the world, shouldn’t countries be banding together to set up an international panel on the issue, along the same lines as the Intergovernmental Panel on ...

Zerodha CEO Nithin Kamath flags rising income inequality, warning that post-2008 asset inflation has widened the wealth gap ...

Does living in an unequal society make people unhappy? Not necessarily, reveals the largest study ever conducted on the subject. Nicolas Sommet, a social psychologist and research manager at the LIVES ...

In “Economic Sociology,” Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology Francesco Duina presents students with a social and philosophical question. “I ask, ‘How many of you like a lot of inequality?’ Usually ...

The gap between rich and poor has reached historic highs. According to the World Inequality Report 2026, released in recent weeks, the richest 10% of the global population now receive 53% of all ...