inequality

After the 'yellow vests' challenged Macron in France, is there a way out of the conundrum for G20 nations?

U.S. politicians must do more to help the 43 million Americans mired in poverty.

Solid job growth is finally boosting paychecks for the rest of us. Incomes for the bottom 99 percent of American families rose 3.3 percent last year to $47,213, the biggest annual gain in the past 15 years, according to data compiled by economist Emmanuel Saez ...

Pope Francis called Thursday for a bold cultural revolution to correct what he calls the "structurally perverse" economic system of the rich exploiting the poor that is turning Earth into an "immense pile of filth." In a sweeping manifesto aimed at spurring action in U.N. ...

Henry George advocated forcefully for a land tax in his 1879 book, "Progress and Poverty." More than 135 years later, perhaps its time is ripe.

The economics in Thomas Piketty's "Capital in the Twenty-First Century," chosen the Business Book of the Year by the Financial Times, leaves a lot to be desired. But its timing was fantastic.

The "old" theory about inequality was that redistribution via the tax system weakened incentives and undermined economic growth. But the relationship between inequality and growth is far more complex and multi-dimensional than this simple trade-off suggests.

Being poor doesn't bum people out. Being poorer than other people — people whose relative wealth you personally witness — does.