Consider this shocking statistic on income inequality: The eight richest men on earth control as much wealth as half of the global population, or the poorest 3.6 billion people. While those are global ...

Tim Smeeding, a professor of public affairs and economics at the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin — Madison, has a few ideas on how to solve income inequality in the US ...

The biggest story in the United States economy, beyond its general crappiness, is the extreme inequality that has developed over the past three decades. The top 1% of the country is now taking home a ...

Or if that's too ambitious a goal then how about how to reduce inequality in America? Now, I have to admit, that inequality really isn't one of those things that I worry about very much. Poverty is, ...

WASHINGTON — Tight labor markets shrink income inequality by causing employers to bid up the price of scarce labor, so policymakers fretting about income inequality could give an epidemic disease a ...

Show values that satisfy an inequality on a set of axes by drawing the line of the corresponding equation and shading the area specified in a question. Include a dashed line for inequalities where the ...

You might consider America's vast wealth inequality, vividly illustrated in this viral video, to be offensive, infuriating, or irrelevant. But it is not terribly mysterious. Rich people have more ...

Anyone wishing to give an opinion on Hong Kong’s apparently troubled present and possibly fraught future would do well to read Richard Wong’s Fixing Inequality in Hong Kong first.

This article originally appeared on AlterNet. Conservatives have suddenly discovered that inequality exists and poverty is a problem. Why? So they can bring back their favorite solution: marriage.