A lot of people are talking about income inequality and wealth disparity. My friends post statistics bemoaning the fact that, for example, the wealthiest 62 billionaires have as much money as the ...

Should the fight against inequality be the Democrats' defining cause? The party's rising tribe of left-wing economic populists — headed up by Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.

Yes, but the answer is less obvious than you might think. By Samuel Scheffler Dr. Scheffler is a professor of philosophy. It is impossible to ignore the stark disparities of income and wealth that ...

Faced with the collapse of their argument that income inequality has risen dramatically in recent decades, Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s favorite economists have come back with an even more audacious claim.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, the most dramatic and consequential change in the distribution of income in America in the past half-century isn’t rising income inequality but the extraordinary ...

The problem of inequality has become so pressing that it needs coordinated global action to address it, a group of over 500 economists and scientists said on Friday. The group, which includes former ...

Evidence from survey research suggests that most people in the United States recognize economic inequality as a social problem in our society. And many of us are willing to acknowledge that ...