Discover how factor income, from rents, wages, and profits, impacts GDP and GNP. Learn its role in income distribution and ...

The gap between rich and poor has reached historic highs. According to the World Inequality Report 2026, released in recent ...

The level of economic inequality in the city of Santiago in Brazil is evident along the border of a high-density, low-income favela neighborhood next to high-rise ...

According to data from the Congressional Budget Office, wealth inequality has been rising steeply in the United States over the last 30 years. This gap between rich and poor means that the top 1% of ...

Income inequality in the United States has become a defining issue of our time, with the gap between the rich and the poor expanding significantly over the past few decades. This growing divide is not ...

Across 41 states, the bottom 20% make less than $20,000 on average. Meanwhile, the top 20% earn more than $250,000 in 25 states — accounting for half of America. While it’s not exactly a new ...

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 ...

Income inequality and carbon dioxide emissions for high-income nations such as the United States, Denmark and Canada are intrinsically linked – but a new study from Drexel University has taken a ...

Income inequality is starker than ever — or so we’ve been told. New research by economists Gerald Auten and David Splinter indicates that the prevailing narrative of runaway inequality is not as ...

A narrow definition such as income inequality does not capture the vast disparities in power that define our society.

A global study led by a researcher at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and published in the journal Scientific Reports(link is external and opens in a new window) finds that ...