If the U.S. were ever so foolish as to want to shrink inequality, doing so would be easy: abolish usage of cars, planes, computers, smartphones and the internet. Presto, inequality shrunk ...

In a stark sign of the economic inequality that has marked the pandemic recession and recovery, Americans as a whole are now earning the same amount in wages and salaries that they did before the ...

This Pew Research Center analysis focuses on public opinion of inequality and its contributing factors in 36 countries across the Asia-Pacific region, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East-North ...

This story contains details about suicide that may be disturbing to some readers. Our team here at Marketplace is taking an introduction to economics class as part of what we’re calling the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a stark sign of the economic inequality that has marked the pandemic recession and recovery, Americans as a whole are now earning the same amount in wages and salaries that they ...

Back in the early 20th century, earnest middle-class reformers out to overturn America’s plutocratic order gravitated to the pages of The Public, a weekly magazine whose editor, Louis Post, would ...

New York — Darren Walker needed to be convinced of his new book's relevance. The outgoing Ford Foundation president feared that “The Idea of America," set to publish in September just before he leaves ...