This Pew Research Center report looks at Americans’ views of economic inequality, including what factors they think contribute to it and who they believe should be responsible for reducing inequality.

Since 2019, a growing share among those who say there’s too much inequality think the economic system needs to be completely rebuilt to address it.

A key finding contained in the latest household income report from Statistics Canada is that the income gap between high-earning and low-earning households has reached record levels. Related to this ...

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 ...

Income inequality is one of the most important measures of economic health, social justice and quality of life. More reliably trackable than wealth inequality, which was recently given a gloomy report ...

Across 41 states, the bottom 20% make less than $20,000 on average. Meanwhile, the top 20% earn more than $250,000 in 25 states — accounting for half of America. While it's not exactly a new ...

Many of today’s most sweeping calls for wealth taxes and “billionaire taxes” rest on the work of economists Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez, and Gabriel Zucman. Their inequality estimates have become ...

As Congress debates tax cuts and safety-net reforms in the One Big Beautiful Bill, a major line of attack against the proposal is that it would worsen inequality, which, to hear some critics tell it, ...

United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby says the US needs a national wealth tax and inheritance taxes nearing 100% for certain estates to address wealth inequality.

Several counties in the Bay Area have the highest economic inequality in California. One is near the top in the country.

A homeless encampment in Kitchener, Ontario, in front of the former Krug Furniture factory According to a report by Statistics Canada on income and wealth distribution issued in July, income ...