Editor’s Note: We’ve been looking at inequality quite a bit lately. In the piece ‘Land of the Free, Home of the Poor,’ we used a trio of pie charts broken down into five quintiles to illustrate ...

The Mathematics Teacher (MT), an official journal of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, is devoted to improving mathematics instruction from grade 8-14 and supporting teacher education ...

Even early on in the pandemic, it was clear that the economic effects of COVID-19 shutdowns would not affect everyone equally. Instead, they highlighted stark inequalities in our world, with some ...

An interesting set of some 40 charts depicting poverty levels, inequality, and income distributions covering 191 countries between 1970 and 2006 in a paper from MIT's Maxim Pinkovskiy and Columbia's ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. One of the evergreen arguments in the debate over rising income inequality is that ...

Inequality in America is about more than the rich and the poor. Significant income gaps are present by age, by race, by occupation, by family type, by homeownership and more. Since 1989, the Federal ...

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen on Friday called the breadth and depth of inequality in America a serious problem that strikes at the core of the country's social and economic values. She made her ...

As discussed in the IMF’s G20 Note, and a blog last week by IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde, a forthcoming chapter of the World Economic Outlook seeks to understand the decline in the labor ...

[caption id="attachment_24567" align="alignnone" width="1024"] A gardener outside a luxury auto showroom in Beijing. China has moved from being moderately unequal in ...

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 ...