The Census Bureau released its annual report yesterday on “Income and Poverty in the United States” with lots of new updated data on household income and household demographics. Based on those new ...

Trade makes for peaceful relationships between nations, but gains for consumers and workers aren't spread evenly. Many economists and politicians argue that international trade has been a good thing.

Last December, President Obama called America’s “dangerous and growing” income inequality the “defining challenge of our time,” and he said he planned to put the topic of income inequality at the ...

“Race is the product of racism; racism is not the product of race” was the message told to students, faculty and community members in the overflowing Klarman auditorium, Wednesday evening. Prof.

Gaps in educational achievement and shifts in technology, often cited as key reasons for widening income and wealth inequality, do very little to explain the trend, said Lawrence Mishel, president of ...

Ezra Klein thinks the rise in income inequality is closely to tied to the debt boom: The acceleration in inequality and the acceleration in debt mirror each other pretty closely. Both accelerate in ...

That the United States has become more unequal at the level of recorded household income is entirely true. Some think this is a problem which needs fixing, others like me greet it with a heartfelt ...

“Race is the product of racism; racism is not the product of race” was the message told to students, faculty and community members in the overflowing Klarman auditorium, Wednesday evening. Prof.