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I care about economic inequality. I teach a class on it. I wrote a book about it. Yet, recently, two different arguments have popped up with a seemingly similar conclusion: economic inequality hasn’t ...

The United States has always had something like a middle class, but for most of our history it has been a distinction not necessarily dependent on income or wealth. In that sense, we have been unusual ...

Washington, D.C. — Today, the Center for American Progress unveiled a new paper examining how the strength of the middle class and inequality affect our nation’s economic growth and stability. Despite ...

“It’s easier to find a denier of global warming than of rising inequality,” quips economist Jared Bernstein. Maybe. But arguments over defining, describing, and deciphering the sources and ...

Over the past three decades, income inequality has risen in most of the 34 member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. A recent analysis of 22 OECD countries from ...

There’s less middle in the middle class as income inequality grows, Pew analysis finds. The middle class has taken center stage in this election cycle, and it turns out there are increasingly fewer ...

In the 2016 presidential race, candidates from both major parties are looking for ways to address inequality. Partly, they must do so because seven years after the 2008 crash, many Americans still ...

The connection between class inequality and asset price bubbles is well established. That is, the gap between the very rich and everyone else tends to widen around the same time that over-investment ...

Though official understanding in India is that inequality is much less of a concern today than it was in the early 2010s, ...