Subscribe to The St. Louis American‘s free weekly newsletter for critical stories, community voices, and insights that matter. Sign up As we begin 2012, the issue of “income inequality” is a matter of ...

The effect has more than outweighed the growth in inequality in much of the rich world, and almost kept pace with it even in ...

The U.S. economy is more dependent than ever on the lavish spending of the wealthiest, The Wall Street Journal recently reported. The top 10% of earners (households making $250,000 per year or more) ...

Learn why the Palma Ratio offers a straightforward alternative to the Gini coefficient for measuring economic inequality.

While the U.S. economy outperforms other rich countries, it doesn’t feel that way for many Americans. Forty-two percent of Americans don’t have an emergency savings fund, while 40% can’t afford a ...

Miami is a city of extremes: extreme heat, extreme food, extreme wealth. But despite the city’s lavish high-rises and world-renowned restaurants, nearly 19% of Miamians live below the poverty level, ...

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 ...

Wealth inequality looks at the distribution of assets, such as property, stocks and saving. Read more at straitstimes.com.