This graph tells you that the richest 1 percent has captured more than half of income growth during periods of economic expansion in the 21st century. If more people knew that, would they support ...

Global inequalities are in bad shape and mostly do not appear to be getting better. Disparities today are about the same as they were in the early 20th century, and the pandemic continues to make ...

What would incomes look like for U.S. families today if the income distribution were the same as it was in 1979? Larry Summers recently made this really intriguing calculation in the FT. His ...

A few years ago, economists Peter Lindert and Jeffrey Williamson uncovered a startling fact about the origins of inequality in America. We know, of course, that incomes are highly unequal today. We ...