“In November, India’s core sector demonstrated resilience with a 1.8 percent increase in output. The rise is largely attributed to gains in the steel and cement industries, driven by an ambitious ...

What are the political attitudes of the very wealthy? How, and how much, do they differ from the less wealthy? The combination of growing inequality, a weak economy, and Occupy Wall Street’s ability ...

The Occupy movement has refocused the national conversation to income inequality. As we've reported in the past, this Tumbler blog puts a face on who the 99 percent are. But who are the 1 percent?

The wealthiest 1 percent of American households own 40 percent of the country’s wealth, according to a new paper by economist Edward N. Woolf. That share is higher than it has been at any point since ...

Since the Great Recession, America’s wealthiest 1 percent have been demonized as fat cats who have grown ever richer while the middle class has stagnated. While protesters have called for the 1 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Surging prices for gas, food and rent catapulted U.S. inflation to a new four-decade peak in June, further pressuring households and likely sealing the case for another large ...

For years, I've been making the same embarrassing mistake about U.S. economic inequality. Sorry. I've written, over and over, that the most important divide in our wealth disparity was between the 1 ...